gconf-editor freezes up changing values

[David Schroeder]

As of today's update (Mar 22) gconf-editor will freeze up when changing a key's value. It will send one of a few messages to STDOUT, one of:

*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x08227420 ***

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x083d0130 ***

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08104330 ***

To reproduce this, open up gconf-editor and change key's value. This seems to happen more often when double-clicking to change the value as opposed to right-clicking, but I don't know if there is a reason for this.

[albert kirk (albertkirk)]

posting to confirm i have the same bug in dapper.

[peter (peter-campbell)]

posting to confirm I have the same bug.

bug-buddy output submitted by email today to <email address hidden>

Distribution: Ubuntu 6.04 (dapper)
Package: gconf-editor
Severity: Normal
Version: GNOME2.14.0 2.14.0
Gnome-Distributor: Ubuntu
Synopsis: gconf crashes
Bugzilla-Product: gconf-editor
Bugzilla-Component: general
Bugzilla-Version: 2.14.0
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.14.0)
Description:
Description of the crash: trying to edit
apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible (or any other checkbox in this
section) gconf crashes.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's a known and fixed issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332931, it'll be fixed for dapper

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 gconf-editor (2.14.0-0ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/01_free_crasher_fix.patch:
     - patch from the CVS to fix a crasher when editing a key (Ubuntu: #36085)