686254 – x11-plugins/gkrellflynn segfaults with glibc-2.29

Bug 686254 - x11-plugins/gkrellflynn segfaults with glibc-2.29

Summary: x11-plugins/gkrellflynn segfaults with glibc-2.29

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Keywords:	PATCH, PMASKED

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Reported:	2019-05-18 20:32 UTC by Tomasz Golinski
Modified:	2019-08-31 07:48 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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patch (glibc-2.29.patch.gz,330 bytes, application/gzip) 2019-05-18 20:32 UTC, Tomasz Golinski	Details
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Description Tomasz Golinski 2019-05-18 20:32:04 UTC

Created attachment 577232 [details]
patch

The reason for segfault is this change in glibc-2.29:

* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the
  currently used CPU and NUMA node.  This function is Linux-specific.

The code of gkrellflynn plugin defines its own function getcpu() which seems to cause the crash. Simply renaming the function in the plugin solves the issue for me. Attaching the trivial patch.

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2019-05-18 21:13:35 UTC

please report upstream
http://bax.comlab.uni-rostock.de/en/projects/flynn/download/

Comment 2 Tomasz Golinski 2019-05-19 13:30:23 UTC

I don't know if it is still maintained upstream and there is no repo or bug tracker. Anyway, I sent author an email.

Comment 3 Tomasz Golinski 2019-05-20 13:29:09 UTC

You probably already know, but the updated tarball (version 0.9) is already available on http://bax.comlab.uni-rostock.de/en/projects/flynn/download/

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2019-06-01 17:01:38 UTC

it was masked for removal in bug 686260

Comment 5 Michał Górny archtester

2019-08-31 07:48:36 UTC

Package removed.