Description of problem: Constant errors reported to ~/.xsession-errors: (firestarter:4033): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_suffix: assertion `str != NULL' failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firestarter-1.0.3-14.fc6 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start firestarter (I use kDE, autostart with sudo/root priveleges) 2.observe ~/.xsession-errors (seems to take a while to start piling up). 3.Possibly only when an incoming packet is blocked - can't pinpoint action that triggers errors. Actual results: Numerous errors reported to ~/.xsession-errors. Expected results: No errors. Additional info: uname -a: Linux 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:59:18 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Compaq Presario SR2020NX, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (~2.2GHz, stepped), nvidia GeForce 6150 LE graphics, driver: freshrpms nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9762-1.
Status: unchanged with F7/Linux presario.localdomain 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:29:10 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
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In response to Comment #2: I am aware that the firestarter code is getting quite stale as it has not been maintained for some years now. And the problems are not getting better: the GUI has refused to load the logs, and the GUI always crashes in F8, simply disappearing from the system tray soon after starting. The service daemon continues to run, apparently just fine, managing the firewall. Changing Fedora Release version to F8. Have not had a chance to check F9 yet. Thanx and Regards, VJS
Snippet from ~/.xsession-errors of latest firestarter crash messages: [...] X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3600002 ***MEMORY-ERROR***: firestarter[7057]: GSlice: assertion failed: sinfo- >n_allocated > 0 Firewall started Finished reading events list [...] Regards, VJS
Changed SEVERITY to "High". At this point, the FireStarter application has become a potential security risk IMHO, due to the age of the code and operational failures: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=202223. As much as I like(d) FireStarter, please either fix this package, or withdraw it from the distribution. Note that the source code has not been updated in years, so action from the upstream vendor is not to be expected. Other, more current applications are available to substitute for this program. firestarter-1.0.3-17.fc8.i386 Thanks and Regards, VJS
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(In reply to comment #6) The issue persists into F9, and the package is included in F10. Please keep this bug report open. I changed "Release" field to F9. Thanks and Regards, VJSchiavoni
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