[Ekiga-list] ekiga 2.1.0 (svn) - segmentation fault - solution/workaround.

[Damien Sandras]

Hi,

Le lundi 03 décembre 2007 à 22:50 +0100, PawelCarqowski a écrit :
> Hallo group members.
> Workaround that would for sure lead to proper solution is:
> before running ekiga, run any software that would start up gconfd deamon.
> I do this whith:
> $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome 
> 
> why is it so?
> I use kde, and no software is probably started to initialize this deamon. That's the reason.
> 
> below there is short program that does the segmentation fault, the same as this rom ekiga.
> 
> #include <gconf/gconf.h>
> int main()
> {
>   gconf_client_get_default();
>   return 0;
> }
> 

I think it is a bug in gconf. GConf should not segfault that way.
However, I have recently committed a fix to work around that problem.
Recent snaps should not crash anymore.
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