Re: [Pan-users] Segfault at exit

[Petr Kovar]

Hi Jim,

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:23:09 +0000 (UTC)
Jim Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:

> As I prepare to take some time off work over the holidays, I thought I 
> might try to track down a minor issue that's been bugging me for a little 
> bit now - when I exit Pan, I get a segfault, and it appears to happen at 
> a time that stops the app from writing all of its "last read" information 
> out.
> 
> It's been happening for a while now, with various builds, using the data 
> I have right now.  I'm guessing that the issue isn't a code bug, but 
> rather something wrong in my data files.  I'd rather not recreate my 
> config from scratch, so I'm trying to track down the problematic config 
> file so I can fix it.
> 
> Call it a "foxhunt" if you like. Something of a puzzle to be solved. :)
> 
> I built a debug build and did a backtrace in gdb, and it points to pan.cc 
> line 1140.  That seems to tie to the process of freeing up secured 
> passwords in memory, so I thought it might be something in servers.xml, 
> but I don't see anything obvious in that file that's a problem (other 
> than perhaps a missing CR/LF at the end of the file, but I tried adding 
> that and the behavior didn't change).

Yep, I can confirm that issue. It's only present when you compile in support
for gnome-keyring (HAVE_GKR). Patches welcome. :) 

Cheers,
pk