Bug#539624: segfaults if the system doesn't have hal

[Rogério Brito]

On Aug 09 2009, Rogério Brito wrote:
> I just rebuilt it. The result is attached (did not sleep this night). I
> could delve into the code a little bit, but I'm just way too tired (it
> probably is an obvious null pointer dereference; well, it always is).
> :-)

Well, I couldn't resist and I put an assertion there.

Of course, there was a NULL pointer dereference: the "devices" pointer
is initialized to NULL at the top of the function and can never get
assigned any value (well, this is the case here):

,----
| (...)
| libhal.c 3126 : LibHalContext *ctx is NULL
| rhythmbox: brasero-medium-monitor.c:451: brasero_medium_monitor_init: Assertion `devices != ((void *)0)' failed.
| Aborted
`----


Regards, Rogério Brito.

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