Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 54810
rp3 crashes (strcmp in ./rp3-config/modem-edit.cc:375)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:40 EDT
Description of Problem: rp3 crashes when Dialer Defaults,Modem entry is missing in /etc/wvdial.conf Error is in: rp3-config/modem-edit.cc:375 if (strcmp (cfg->get ("Dialer Defaults", "Modem"), modem->device) == 0) { cfg-get returns a null pointer I suspect the `Dialer Defaults' section is supposed to be always present in /etc/wvdial.conf, but it wasn't ! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): At least rp3-1.1.10-1 .. rp3-1.1.10-4 How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play around with rp3, rp3-conf, wvdial, wvdialconf (what else ?) untill the Dialer Defaults section is gone 2. Run rp3 Actual Results: crash Expected Results: works Additional Information: I agree wholeheartedly with comments in http://www.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54302
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He he, very clever, after 5 years I no longer have any copies of redhat 7.1 around and would need to go digging for a modem ;-) Ok to close this bug ! FWIW I switched to CentOS two years ago and had stopped reporting bugs to Redhat a year before that after not receiving replies to more serious bugreports. My company recently bought RHEL licenses as they were required by SAP. But for all other purposes CentOS suits me just fine.
OK. Apologies for the delay, and thanks for the honesty.