Re: [bug-gv] Fwd: [Bug 1071238] New: [abrt] gv: zoom_createZoom(): gv killed by SIGSEGV

[Markus Steinborn]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 02/28/2014 12:09 PM, William Bader wrote:
> > It has never happened to me, but grep for gv_filename shows a lot of 
> > places
> > that check if it is NULL.
> > I can get a crash if I run gv with no file on the command line and 
> > then try to
> > open a zoom.
> > William
> Ah, so that's how you do it, thanks.  I can confirm that this patch 
> fixes the crash.  I don't know if just preventing the operation 
> completely would be better
Interesting: On Fedora 20 with redhat's builds of Xaw3d and gv, I am 
getting this crash, too. On CentOS 5 with my build of Xaw3d and gv, I 
don't. The code crashing on Fedora 20 simply is not executed with the 
above sequence of operations.

We've got to investigate this further.


Greetings

Markus Steinborn
GNU gv maintainer