[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#562068: hald-probe-input segfaults on hal restart

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Willi Mann wrote:
>> Package: hal
>> Version: 0.5.14-1
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>> When /etc/init.d/hal restart is executed - it happened first to me on today's
>> upgrade - I get the following backtrace (signal 6, aborted):
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.
> Could you build hal with debugging symbols [1], so we can get a more meaningful
> backtrace. The output of
> hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
> Could be helpful too.

Even more helpful would be, if you could run git bisect to find out the
offending commit which introduced the regresseion between 0.5.13 and 0.5.14.
The hal Git repository is available from [2].
Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the bug here, so your assisstance would be
really appreciated.

Thanks,
Michael


[1] http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#using-bisect
[2] git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/hal
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