Bug 10999 - libpng from RH6.2 causes segfaults with xpaint
Summary: libpng from RH6.2 causes segfaults with xpaint
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: libpng
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-04-23 09:12 UTC by Redacted 004
Modified: 2019-10-02 18:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-06-11 10:49:32 UTC
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Description Redacted 004 2000-04-23 09:12:56 UTC 
After freshly installing RH6.2 xpaint would segfault when opening or saving
PNG files. Since back-levelling xpaint to the RH6.1 version did not help I
searched through xpaint's dependencies: I saw one on libpng.so.2 so I tried
back-levelling THAT to the RH6.1 versions. I used:

rpm -U --oldpackage libpng-1.0.3-4.i386.rpm libpng-devel-1.0.3-4.i386.rpm

This solved the problem, so I upgraded xpaint again to the RH6.2 version to
verify that all was still well. It was...
I suspect that the libpng's shipped with RH6.2 are buggy...

Kind regards, ...
Comment 1 Redacted 004 2000-06-11 10:49:32 UTC 
Is anyone looking into this bug? It appears rather quiet around this one...

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Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-19 18:31:33 UTC 
This is fixed in rawhide. (The problem was not a bug in libpng but a
source-level incompatible change, and xpaint requiring the old behavior).
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