KDE Konsole, crashes, on a SIGABRT...

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:03, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>>>--On Saturday, August 23, 2003 10:27:59 -0400 Daniel Eischen
>>>
> 
> (...)
> 
>>>>We (threads guys) think it's a problem with konsole.  It is trying
>>>>to change ownership of the pty and is failing to do so.  We don't
>>>>know why.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  konsole
>>>>aborts itself when it can't change/open the pty, so SIGABRT is
>>>>expected.
>>>
>>>Interestingly, if I use /etc/libmap.conf to map libc_r.(so|so.5) to
>>>libc_r.(so.4|so.4)
>>>it works starting from within an XTerm, but not from the bar at the
>>>bottom.
>>>
>>>Now, I have **NOT** rebooted yet.
>>>
>>>This seems to have started with thursday's world, the previous world was
>>>~2 weeks ago.
>>>
>>>Prior to Thursday, it worked just fine.
>>
>>I can't explain it.  Someone is going to have to debug konsole and
>>figure out what is going on.
> 
> 
> It is a problem that has appeared in the last two weeks, and it was triggered 
> by a change in (apparently) libc_r as well as libkse, as it doesn't start 
> with both now. With the patch that Michael Nottebrock provided on this list, 
> it was perfectly possible to run Konsole with libkse (and libc_r) on a 
> -CURRENT from august 15. 
> 
> So something was broken in the threads code between august 15 and now. I don't 
> think that we should point to Konsole here, something went wrong in the 
> threads code.

Konsole_grantpty was using a buggy hack, which worked because of a bug 
in libc_r. Maybe the bug in libc_r was fixed, thereby making it work 
like libkse and libthr (ie, crashing konsole).

Fix: remove konsole_grantpty.

If that does not work, just tell me and I'll eat my own hat.

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