Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7344
rp3 still fails to start
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
In Gnome, invoking the menu item Internet > RH PPP Dialer causes an immediate "segmentation fault". I have downloaded and installed all the rpm packages that are supposed to correct this problem. After the error message appeared I invoked gdb - the resulting output follows: [root@Learn /root]# gdb /usr/bin/rp3 GNU gdb 19991004 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"... (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/bin/rp3 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. strncmp (s1=0x805510c "ppp", s2=0x0, n=3) at ../sysdeps/generic/strncmp.c:65 65 ../sysdeps/generic/strncmp.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 strncmp (s1=0x805510c "ppp", s2=0x0, n=3) at ../sysdeps/generic/strncmp.c:65 #1 0x80513ef in interface_status_update (i=0x8093cb8) at interface.c:417 #2 0x80511b0 in interface_new (interfaceName=0x8093a85 "") at interface.c:324 #3 0x8050dd6 in interface_list_generate () at interface.c:181 #4 0x804ead1 in properties_interface_choose () at properties.c:71 #5 0x804ea90 in properties_interface_get (chosenInterface=0x0) at properties.c:50 #6 0x804d5a6 in application_main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffbf4) at rp3.c:88 #7 0x804d8b2 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffbf4) at rp3.c:169 (gdb) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y [root@Learn /root]# Similar problems occur with rp3-config, gnome-help-browser, gedit.
I also have Red Hat 6.1 installed on a slower 486 machine. rp3 and rp3-config seem to work correctly there. gedit fails on both systems when invoked with a file name in the command line. gnome-help-browser fails sometimes. If I delete all the ".gnome*" directories it settles down and works as expected.
The gnome-help-browser and gedit problems you are seeing cannot be in any way related to this. Please file separate bugs, including back traces, for those two. Please try the test release ftp://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/rp3/rp3-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm and report whether it fixes this problem for you.
You emailed rp3-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm to me. I installed it and it seems to have corrected the problem. At least the program now brings up its dialogue windows and seems to have reasonable actions. I will experiment with it a bit more to see if everything is working as it should. This will take a day or so. Initial signs are good. Thanks very much.
I've marked this as resolved in RawHide because 1.0.2 is currently available via RawHide, but we will be releasing an update (probably numbered 1.0.3) as an errata release later, with more fixes than 1.0.2. In the meantime, this is fixed for you -- I know this particular bug and it either shows up or it doesn't... So if you find more bugs, please report them separately rather than appending them to this report. Thanks!