gpointing-device-settings crashes when run non-root

[Adam Spiers]

Binary package hint: gpointing-device-settings

$ gpointing-device-settings
[1] 3367 segmentation fault gpointing-device-settings
$ gdb gpointing-device-settings
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gpointing-device-settings...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/gpointing-device-settings...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gpointing-device-settings
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7ddbb70 (LWP 3376)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00f74ec3 in set_tapping_time_from_preference (ui=0x80aa628, error=0xbffff16c) at gpds-touchpad-ui.c:969
969 gpds-touchpad-ui.c: No such file or directory.
 in gpds-touchpad-ui.c
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00f74ec3 in set_tapping_time_from_preference (ui=0x80aa628, error=0xbffff16c) at gpds-touchpad-ui.c:969
#1 setup_current_values (ui=0x80aa628, error=0xbffff16c) at gpds-touchpad-ui.c:1005
#2 build (ui=0x80aa628, error=0xbffff16c) at gpds-touchpad-ui.c:1059
#3 0x0013359d in gpds_ui_build (ui=0x80aa628, error=0xbffff16c) at gpds-ui.c:221
#4 0x08049567 in append_ui (icon_view=0x0, notebook=0x80e9cc8, ui=0x81136c0) at gpointing-device-settings.c:106
#5 0x08049b2d in append_uis (argc=1, argv=0xbffff2b4) at gpointing-device-settings.c:168
#6 main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff2b4) at gpointing-device-settings.c:257

This is with Ubuntu 10.10 and gpointing-device-settings 1.5.1-2. When I launch it via sudo it works fine. Also when I go to System > Preferences > Pointing devices, nothing is launched - I guess that might be related to this segfault but I'm not sure.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This package has been removed from the Ubuntu development release, so I am closing all remaining open bug reports.

Sorry that we couldn't fix your problem properly, but gpointing-device-settings is dead upstream, buggy and completely unmaintained.

For more information, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870961

Thank you for your understanding and please continue to report any bugs you may find.