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Bug 250176 - app-misc/mc-4.6.2_pre1 crashes under root
Summary: app-misc/mc-4.6.2_pre1 crashes under root
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Desktop Misc. Team
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.ph...
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Reported: 2008-12-07 14:58 UTC by Tomas Caithaml
Modified: 2009-08-05 11:37 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Fix uninitialized variable error (mc-4.6.2_pre1-unused-fix.patch,320 bytes, patch)
2008-12-07 15:02 UTC, Tomas Caithaml
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Description Tomas Caithaml 2008-12-07 14:58:19 UTC
Hi,
If I run mc under root, it gets SIGSEGV on startup.

I tried to investigate this bug and ran into this http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?24986. I applied that patch and it seems to solve the problem.

Is it possible to include that patch into portage? It is already in upstream CVS but it could take long time before new version comes out...
Comment 1 Tomas Caithaml 2008-12-07 15:02:21 UTC
Created attachment 174564 [details, diff]
Fix uninitialized variable error
Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-21 10:05:13 UTC
+  21 Jul 2009; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> mc-4.6.2_pre1.ebuild,
+  +files/mc-4.6.2_pre1-null.patch:
+  Don't crash when used as root wrt #250176.

Added without revbump; I'll revbump a bit later on when I get enough fixes in..
Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-05 11:37:38 UTC
4.7.0_pre1 in tree...