Bug 243272

Summary:	XEmacs crashes regularly, please upgrade from upstream
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd>
Component:	xemacs	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	6
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	21.5.28-2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Sjoerd Mullender 2007-06-08 11:07:58 UTC

Description of problem:

From time to time my XEmacs vanishes.  Invariably this is because of a double
free detected by glibc.  According to Stephen Turnbull from XEmacs this was a
bug which was fixed in XEmacs version 21.5.28.  So please update to that version.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xemacs-21.5.27-8.fc6.x86_64

How reproducible:
This happens occasionally without fixed pattern.  But it has happened twice
already today (and it's only 1 PM).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. It's hard to reproduce, basically start XEmacs and start working
2. It normally happens when I'm switching workspaces.
3.
  
Actual results:
XEmacs crashes with a message from glibc about a double free.


Expected results:
No crash.

Additional info:
Since this version of XEmacs is also in Fedora 7, it may be prudent to also
update there.  So far I have only noticed the problem on FC6 on a 64 bit system,
but then, I work on such a system.

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2007-06-12 06:24:06 UTC

21.5.28 is already in F7 updates-testing, if nothing unexpected happens it will
be pushed to updates tomorrowish and shortly after that a FC6 update pushed too.