Failure running system-config-httpd

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:22 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I ran system-config-httpd on F12 today and it failed with:
> 
> [root at peglaptop php]# system-config-httpd
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/bin/python terminated
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> <large snip>
> 3e51034000-3e51036000 rw-p 00034000 fd:01 204336                         /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1.4.3/usr/share/system-config-httpd/system-config-httpd: line 4: 31712 Aborted                 (core dumped) /usr/bin/python /usr/share/system-config-httpd/ApacheConf.py
> 
> This is with all the latest updates installed.
> 
> Any idea what to do?

Paulo,

You are not the first to get caught by this, and probably not the last.
It is apparently caused by a bug in alchemist. Phil Knirsch says he's
planning to rewrite the backend code of system-config-httpd over the
upcoming holidays, and hopes to have a fix available in early January.

For more information see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528638

Happy holidays...

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL