gnome-control-center Keyboard Layout and User Accounts modules crash under IceWM
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 11.10 patched to the minute with oneiric-proposed
Specifically, gnome-control-
Cause: IceWM does not set environment variable $XDG_CURRENT_
gnome-control-
it tries to dereference a null pointer returned by getenv().
The bug (actually two bugs) is introduced by the Ubuntu patches 10_keyboard_
TO REPRODUCE under any window manager:
$ env -u XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP gnome-control-
[ click on Keyboard Layout ]
[ OR click on Keyboard, then Layout Settings ]
[ OR click on User Accounts ]
Patch attached. The patch makes gnome-control-
$XDG_CURRENT_
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
(See also https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 665947 -- retracted when I realized the bug was in Ubuntu)