Bug#432227: Additional information

E L elylevy at cs.huji.ac.il
Mon Jul 9 15:21:10 UTC 2007


2.18.3 still seem not to initialize that variable.

Ely

On 7/8/07, Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007, Ely Levy wrote:
> > I made a mistake when sending the bug report and didn't provide all the
> > information:
> >
> > in daemon/misc.c the function gdm_peek_local_address_list calls
> > getaddrinfo with the uninitialized variable hints. This causes
> getaddrinfo
> > to fail, which in turn cause gdm not to write the xauthority file
> > correctly. Changing hints to NULL in the function call seems to solve
> the
> > problem.
>
> Please try with version 2.18.3 in unstable; I think it fixes this area
> of the code.
>
> --
> Loïc Minier
>
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