Bug 277061

Summary:	xlockmore-5.28 segfaults with *.utf8 locale
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED) <i92guboj>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Proposal of ebuild that will not segfault

Description Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-08 16:54:00 UTC

This is not new, it happened with .21 as well for what it seems. 

http://bugs.gentoo.org/121339

Since this belongs upstream, I suggest disabling nls completely in the ebuild. People having this problem can't figure why the hell xlock doesn't work, and utf8 is the standard nowadays, so that's a BIG percentage of the users which are being bitten by this bug.

I suggest to rip out the unicode flag and let it compile without unicode support. I prefer to ditch a feature that doesn't work that not to be able to use the program because it segfaults anyway when you try to use the feature.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge xlockmore
2.have an utf8 locale
3.run xlock and watch it segfaults, it's automatic

Actual Results:  
it segfaults

Expected Results:  
it shouldn't segfault and it should lock your screen with a "nice" screensaver

Comment 1 Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-08 16:54:40 UTC

Created attachment 197212 [details]
Proposal of ebuild that will not segfault

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-11 21:51:52 UTC

+  11 Jul 2009; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> xlockmore-5.28.ebuild:
+  Remove USE unicode wrt #277061. Introduce --enable-ttf back because it
+  can't find fonts wrt #272232.

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-11 21:52:31 UTC

For me this fixed xglock's previewing segfault.

Comment 4 Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-12 20:23:52 UTC

Thanks for fixing this one.