Re: Gnome hosed--theme crashing!
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:59:00AM +0200, Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu> wrote:
> Christian Jaeger wrote:
> >Mumia W.. wrote:
> >>On 08/25/2008 09:12 PM, ZephyrQ wrote:
> >>>PauL Lane wrote:
> >>>>On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:38:00PM -0500, PauL Lane wrote:
> >>>>>Hello, have you recently upgraded libxml2? I had the same problem.
> >>>>>Try; $ dpkg -l libxml2
> >>>>>If it comes back;
> >>>>>ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Try downgrading to 2.6.27.dfsg-3.
> >>>>>Also have a look at;
> >>>>>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496125
> >>>>
> >>>>My bad, should be downgrade to 2.6.27.dfsg-2.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>I downgraded, but I'm still having the same problem with the themes
> >>>app in gnome (I can't change theme). I checked out the bug report,
> >>>but the fix requires me to start using unstable, and I'm not
> >>>comfortable enough (and don't have the time in the short term to
> >>>research) with pinning to try and 'mix' my etch sources.
> >>>
> >>>Anything I missed?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Perhaps this is the problem:
> >>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.debian/browse_thread/thread/331c0b7d119affec#
> >>
> >
> >Yes that's probably everything the same problem, bug 496125.
> >
> >ZephyrQ: Are you *really* sure that you're running the previous
> >libxml2 now? What is dpkg -l libxml2 showing now?
> >
> >Also: try to create a new user from the console ("adduser foo") and
> >log into that one, since the default theme of Gnome does not run into
> >the problem (at least not on Lenny).
> >
> >Also, note that even if you don't manage to downgrade libxml2, you
> >could rebuild librsvg2 instead (which is, depending on viewpoint, the
> >real culprit here). "apt-get source librsvg; cd librsvg-*;
> >dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b -r'fakeroot -u'" then install the
> >resulting librsvg*.deb's with "dpkg -i" (well, at least those which
> >you currently have installed, you could check with dpkg -l "librsvg*").
>
> Also note that accordant to bug 496125, Mike Hommey, the libxml2
> maintainer, has created a new libxml2 package which includes the
> security fix in a way which does not change the size of structs so that
> librsvg and other libraries which didn't allocate memory through the
> libxml2 api don't cause crashes anymore. I don't know if and when that
> version will be distributed to etch users, though. You could ask on the
> debian-security mailing list.
It's on security-master already, and should be ready on all architectures
soon, I guess. A package for unstable should already be available on most
archs, and should transition to testing soon, too.
Mike
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