FS#6816 - Opera segfault with libx11 1.1.1-4

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by cristian (fancris3) - Thursday, 05 April 2007, 11:22 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 22 April 2007, 21:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 22 April 2007, 21:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Opera has been updated to 9.20.
Comment by Dawid Wróbel (cromo) - Thursday, 05 April 2007, 11:32 GMT
I think you meant it doesn't work properly WITH libX11-1.1.1-xinitimage.diff. That, I can confirm.
Comment by cristian (fancris3) - Thursday, 05 April 2007, 17:14 GMT
Right.I'm stupid.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 05 April 2007, 18:16 GMT
The patch applied is an important security fix. As opera is the only application that crashes, and as opera is closed source software with no possible debug options, I blame opera in this case. Valgrind shows only calls inside the opera binary when things crash, gdb doesn't show anything. Valgrind shows it's a nullpointer dereference inside opera.

I won't update libx11 unless upstream or some other distribution comes up with a fix for this.
Comment by Dawid Wróbel (cromo) - Friday, 06 April 2007, 00:00 GMT
That's obviously true, I am aware of opera being the only experienced (AFIK) software that has problems with this patch, so we should of course wait for Opera's response. I am pretty sure they'll provide another build, built against the patched libx11.
Comment by Lukas Jirkovsky (6xx) - Friday, 06 April 2007, 12:03 GMT
You could update opera to newest build, which has fixed this problem.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/04/06/hotfix
Comment by Dawid Wróbel (cromo) - Friday, 06 April 2007, 12:14 GMT
Yet there is no hotifix for 9.10 stable.
Comment by Johannes Wegener (JoyFM) - Friday, 06 April 2007, 22:17 GMT
i added package to aur : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=10245&O=0&L=&C=&K=&SB=&SO=&PP=&do_MyPackages=1&do_Orphans=&SeB=
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 07 April 2007, 14:31 GMT
there's no such package anymore
for hotfixes: see http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

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