Bug#500103: gpm: aptitude segfaults with latest ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:

> package gpm
> merge 326709 500103
> thanks
>
> On 2008-09-25 12:14 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>>> Package: gpm
>>> Version: 1.20.4-2
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> With latest ncurses (5.6+20080920-1) installed, aptitude's UI segfaults
>>> at the Linux console in various actions.  Exiting, suspending and trying
>>> to become root all result in SIGSEGV.  Here is a backtrace from exiting
>>> aptitude:
>>
>> I did change this area - appears there's a problem (thanks)
>
> It seems that it is bug #326709 reoccuring, see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326709#20.

no - it's my own bug in this instance.  I fixed a memory leak, but did not 
explore all of the paths.  I made a fix for this on Thursday of this week, 
which addresses most of the problem. There's a followup report (which I 
don't know if it's a new bug) that I'll work on today (if the GPM server 
is killed, it breaks the application).

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