FS#10269 - firestarter segfault with error: "***MEMORY-ERROR***: firestarter[14578]: GSlice: assertion failed:"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Zygfryd Homonto (zyghom) - Thursday, 24 April 2008, 11:03 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Thursday, 28 May 2009, 03:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

GUI for firestarter actively segfaults with error:
***MEMORY-ERROR***: firestarter[14578]: GSlice: assertion failed: sinfo->n_allocated > 0

this is confirmed by other forums, even solved on ubuntu forum (https://bugs.launchpad.net/firestarter/+bug/120445)

the patch for this is attached, as well as new PKGBUILD

Additional info:
* package version(s)
1.0.3-7
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce: start firestarter GUI and open/close "Active connections" then stop/start firewall, very soon it segfaults


   PKGBUILD (2.5 KiB)
   foo2.patch (0.8 KiB)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 03:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  firestarter has been removed from the repo.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 27 April 2008, 18:46 GMT
sent it upstream
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 17 May 2008, 14:54 GMT
By it i meant the patch.
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 14:49 GMT
Is there a bugreport available for this upstream?
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 01 February 2009, 08:46 GMT
IIRC there was some talk about dropping it to unsupported lately. Theres many more alternatives now than there were before.

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