Re: [Pan-users] 0.12.94 crash in new user startup

[Lars Bamberger]

Charles Kerr wrote:

>>Do you want me to upgrade to glib 2.0.6 to verify that it's an glib problem?
> 
> Yes, but before you do that, try this patch.

Hm...

> patching file dialog-newuser.c
> patch: **** malformed patch at line 26:  replace_gstr (&email, NULL);

I patched it manually. Let's see ....

> hugin~/LFS-build/pan/pan-0.12.94-patched/pan> ./pan
> ** Message: email: [(Null)]
> ** Message: email: [(Null)]
> hugin~/LFS-build/pan/pan-0.12.94-patched/pan>

Yup, it's working now, I get the newuser-dialog and pan's ready to go.

Now I'll try glib-2.0.6 and pan-0.12.94: This also produces a seg fault.
Now the patched version of pan: Same as above (working).

> I'd be surprised if g_strstrip chokes on a NULL pointer,
> but it looks like that's what's happening...

That was it. Thanks for the quick fix :-)

CU,
Lars