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Re: bug#42694: 26.3; Emacs crashes when linked against newer libx11 |
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Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:40:41 +0300 |
> From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:31:49 +0200
>
> Two days ago, a patch was sent to Guix updating libx11 to a newer
> version in order to fix CVE-2020-14344. This causes a segmentation
> fault in Emacs when trying to start an X window. After invoking GDB, I
> found the offending line to be:
>
> /* Determine XIC style */
> xic_style = best_xim_style (FRAME_X_XIM_STYLES (f));
>
> For some reason, FRAME_X_XIM_STYLES (f) returns NULL here and
> best_xim_style fails when ARRAYELTS is called on it. I've attached a
> patch, that checks for this case.
Thanks, this is bug#42676, which was solved yesterday.
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