Re: Bug#1040297: gnome: Gnome fails to start on login and falls back to GDM3
- To: 1040297@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: Bastian Venthur <venthur@debian.org>, libc6@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#1040297: gnome: Gnome fails to start on login and falls back to GDM3
- From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 10:32:24 +0100
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 at 09:50:57 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 at 22:44:40 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > #5 0x00007f134cbe97ce g_utf8_collate_key (libglib-2.0.so.0
> > + 0x8a7ce)
> > #6 0x00007f134ccee180 e_source_set_display_name
> > (libedataserver-1.2.so.27 + 0x57180)
>
> Well, this is messed up - something is setting the display name of an
> ESource (a calendar or address book or something similar) to a value that
> is, apparently, so long that allocating memory for its collation key (a
> version that has been modified to sort in the correct locale-sensitive
> order) will fail.
I wonder whether this is the same root cause as #1040452: glibc (>= 2.37-2)
sometimes generating corrupted locale archives? That might explain why
g_utf8_collate_key() would get nonsense results.
Please try with glibc (>= 2.37-5) which fixes that bug, and maybe this
one too.
smcv
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