Progress reports of my students fixing bugs

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

About a week ago I announced I wanted some relatively easy to fix bugs
to use in a lab lesson for students to teach them / let them practice
with systematical fault searching.

Many thanks to those who posted bugs, although I did find the response a
bit lacking. Since I want to continue with these lessons next week and
need a few new bug here is a progress report on the bugs which I gave to
my students:

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206873
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206874
Problem found and fix-patch attached to bug

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http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214745
Really 2 bugs, first ImageMagick creates a corrupt .ico and then it
crashes reading it, debugging the crash reading it is in progress and
I expect the students to come up with a fix next week.

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| -- CMakeLists.txt --
| include(foo.cmake)
| foo()
|
| -- foo.cmake --
| macro(foo)
|         message(SEND_ERROR "foo")
| endmacro(foo)
|
| $ cmake CMakeLists.txt
| ...
| Segmentation fault (core dumped)

In progress, the segfault happens because the code tries to access
element 0  / [0] of an empty STL vector, why its empty is not clear though.

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213212

This is really many bugs with mc ftpfs after the ipv6 support patch, my
students have pinpointed the problems with passive ipv4 connections and
also have figured out how to fix it, I expect them to write a fix for
the passive problem this wednesday.

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203336

Torcs segfaults after a short while when using "openal" for the sound,
but not when using "plib". I just tried in 1.3.0 and there is still the
same problem... either it's in torcs itself (which BTW exits
when /dev/dsp is busy, not very user friendly!) or in openal, dunno.

My Students failed to reproduce this on FC-6 and have requested the
reporter to try to see if he can reproduce it.

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So as you can see my students are doing good work, and I / they need
more relatively easy bugs to keep up there good work! So please send me
more bugs. I need bugs (do I?) :)

Regards,

Hans