Bug 220679

Summary:	system-config-users aborts when freeing invalid pointer
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jukka Ketelaars <jukka>
Component:	libuser	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
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Description Jukka Ketelaars 2006-12-23 00:03:53 UTC

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Description of problem:
When using system-config-users to create a new user the dialog freezes after pressing the ok button. 

When running it from the command line the following error is displayed:
# system-config-users 
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python2: free(): invalid pointer: 0x082560b0 ***


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-users-1.2.51-1.fc7

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. start system-config-users from command line
2. Press "Add user"
3. User name: test
4. Full name: Test
5. Password/Confirm password: some password
6. Press OK

Actual Results:
The gui freezes and the following error is printed:
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python2: free(): invalid pointer: 0x082560b0 ***

Expected Results:
user should have been created.

Additional info:
glibc-2.5.90-14
python-2.5-6.fc7

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2006-12-27 15:50:11 UTC

changing component to python

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-01-06 21:00:54 UTC

This is being caused by libuser allocating memory with PyObject_Malloc and then
freeing it with PyMem_DEL.  In python 2.5, these actually have a differences (so
that the interpreter can return memory to the system).

Fixed in libuser-0.55-2