fix for gnome-pilot crasher (fc5 updates 2.0.13-7.fc5.5)

Than Ngo than at redhat.com
Wed Apr 19 19:22:44 UTC 2006


Matt Davey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The recently released gnome-pilot package (2.0.13-7.fc5.5) crashes on
> every sync attempt, for me at least.
>
> I've updated the following bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189294
>
> and have attached a patch (actually, a meta-patch) that fixes the bug.
>
> The problem was the inclusion of a patch that removes a memory leak in
> gnome-pilot, but inadvertently triggers a free(NULL) in the pilot-link
> library.  It doesn't cause that behaviour when linked against pilot-link
> 0.12.0pre*, but with the welcome downgrade to 0.11.8, causes a crash
> every time for me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
>
> Matt Davey		Socrates said man is never free, but Socrates
> mcdavey at mrao.cam.ac.uk 	   never windsurfed.
>
>   
i'm preparing new gnome-pilot for fc4/fc5 updates and fc6-devel to fix  
#189294.
Many thanks for the patch.

Than




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