Bug#528791: gksu: unable to start root terminal after a few hours of working in gnome

[Patrick Steiner]

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-1
Severity: important


when i want to start the root terminal after a few hours of working in gnome, then gksu abort with to follow
message:

gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
gksu: egg-secure-memory.c:324: sec_check_guards: Assertion `((void**)cell->words)[cell->n_words - 1] ==
(void*)cell' failed.

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here are the debug output:

gksu --debug /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
xauth: -67dd8518c2586ae1cadc67c384081c32
-
display: -:0.0-
final xauth: -67dd8518c2586ae1cadc67c384081c32
-
final display: -:0.0-
STARTUP_ID: gksu/|usr|bin|x-terminal-emulator/16126-0-notebook_TIME0
gksu_context_run: buf: -Password: -
password from keyring found
DEBUG (run:after-pass) buf: -Password: -
DEBUG (run:post-after-pass) buf: -
ssword: -
DEBUG (run:post-after-pass) buf: -gksu: waiting-
gksu: egg-secure-memory.c:324: sec_check_guards: Assertion `((void**)cell->words)[cell->n_words - 1] ==
(void*)cell' failed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gnome-keyring          2.26.0-4          GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.24.0-2          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgksu2-0             2.0.9-1           library providing su and sudo func
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.0-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.26.0-4          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  sudo                   1.7.0-1           Provide limited super user privile
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

gksu recommends no packages.

gksu suggests no packages.

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