Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 44617
segv when chaging fonts using keypad plus/minus
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:41 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 Description of problem: rxvt lets you change the font size using shift and keypad plus/minus. Under RH7.1, this causes a segv, killing the rxvt process. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start an rxvt 2. Press shift-<keypad-plus> or shift-<keypad-minus> 3. Actual Results: rxvt dies Expected Results: The font size should change Additional info: This has already been mentioned by someone else in bug 18326. Here's some gdb output: Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x40049957 in XFindOnExtensionList () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x40049957 in XFindOnExtensionList () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #1 0x40043c6b in _XF86BigfontFreeFontMetrics () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #2 0x40042fcb in XFreeFont () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #3 0x080514c3 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #4 0x0804ba50 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #5 0x0804c611 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #6 0x0804c303 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #7 0x0804effc in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #8 0x0804b873 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #9 0x4013d177 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804b840 <strcpy+272>, argc=1, ubp_av=0xbffff814, init=0x804a9c8 <_init>, fini=0x806286c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000e184 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff80c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
No problem with: $ rpm -q XFree86 rxvt XFree86-4.1.0-0.0.2 rxvt-2.7.6-2
Just FYI, it appears to be merely sufficient to apply the rawhide rxvt package (rxvt-2.7.6-2 in this case). Updating XFree is unnecessary. However, this really isn't a WORKSFORME solution -- the package in stock 7.1 is clearly broken in this regard and updates via the usual channel aren't available. It should be relabeled as RESOLVED --> RAWHIDE.
if you say so.. ;)