Bug#503702: lockvc: Segfaults.
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:29:10PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:25:50 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > Package: lockvc
> > > Version: 4.0.5-6
> > > Severity: serious
>
> > > It seems that lockvc sometimes segfaults on me. It's not doing it all
> > > time, but atleast once a week.
>
> If there was a backtrace I might try to fix it, it could even be a
> problem in svgalib itself, but that might also depend on the driver
> being used.
>
> > > I'm setting it to serious since the console is unlocked at that point,
> > > and so I consider it to be not useful at all.
> >
> > Given that we have vlock as a proper and proven replacement (and which
> > is also portable and not depending on svgalib) we should just remove
> > lockvc. CCing Guillem, the former maintainer for his opinion.
>
> It also runs as suid root, and busy loops while "screen saving", so if
> Kurt cannot provide a backtrace then I guess removing makes sense.
> Still I'd be interested to know if this is really lockvc's fault or
> svgalib's, as the latter might affect other programs.
I've tried to get a backtrace before. I've set the suid bit off
and ran it as root but it didn't dump core for some reason. I'll
try again to get a backtrace. It's not something that
always dumps core.
On an other box I have starting it seems to make it make it use
all cpu and just hang. Killing it of course keeps the console
locked.
Neither shows properly shows something as it should. The text
stays visible, but the one that more or less works has some pixels
changing colors at the top of the screen. It's says it's using the
VESA driver, 1604KB. VBE3.
Kurt
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