Re: [Tracker] Many fixes

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 15:23 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2007/7/22, Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>:
> > Le dimanche 22 juillet 2007 Ã 10:15 +0100, jamie a Ãcrit :
> > > On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 04:15 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > 2007/7/22, Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I propose a patch to fix a bunch of things:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Laurent,
> > > >
> > > > after your latest commit (r693), trackerd immediately segfaults on
> > > > start for me :-/
> > > >
> > > > Backtrace is attached.
> > > not sure what it is
> > >
> > > but have added strlen check to laurent's tracker_is_empty_string
> > > function
> >
> > That's not a correct fix. If trackerd crashes here it means that a
> > string is not NULL terminated so malformed...
> >
> >
> > Michael, can you send here the file "gedit-usercustom-1.desktop"?
>
> It doesn't seem to be a specific *desktop file. It crashes on indexing
> the first *.desktop file, even if I remove
> ~/.local/share/applications/*
> So I guess, the problem is within the desktop file parsing code.
>
> And to jamies earlier question: Going back to r692, and it doesn't
> crash anymore.

can you pls do a valgrind -v trackerd

memory corruption is obviously happening somewhere and only valgrind can
tell us where