Bug 816

Summary: consolehelper + drakconf writes wrongly fromatted messages and crashes
Product: Sisyphus Reporter: imz <vanyaz>
Component: drakconfAssignee: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: P4    
Version: unstable   
Hardware: all   
OS: Linux   

Description imz 2002-04-10 21:48:13 MSD 
It is reproducable when DISPLAY can not be connected (as in the example below, there is no :15).

But it seems to me that this is not specific only to this case, I saw it in the graphical prompt sometimes.


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[<a href="mailto:imz@shamrock" target="_new">imz@shamrock</a> imz]$ export DISPLAY=:15
[<a href="mailto:imz@shamrock" target="_new">imz@shamrock</a> imz]$ sudo drakconf
Чтобы выполнить 
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drakconf-0.70-alt9
consolehelper-0.2-alt1
Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-04-10 22:11:10 MSD 
This is reproducable only when drakconf is run by root.
Unprivileged consolehelper thinks that \&quot;Permission denied\&quot; is the password,
asks password, receives sigpipe, reports it and then segfaults...

The bug is in unprivileged consolehelper only.
Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-04-10 22:11:10 MSD 
This is reproducable only when drakconf is run by root.
Unprivileged consolehelper thinks that \&quot;Permission denied\&quot; is the password,
asks password, receives sigpipe, reports it and then segfaults...

The bug is in unprivileged consolehelper only.
Comment 3 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-04-10 22:43:03 MSD 
Fixed in
consolehelper-0.2.1-alt1
Comment 4 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-04-10 22:43:03 MSD 
Fixed in
consolehelper-0.2.1-alt1