Bug#426130: rdesktop segfaults in Debian Testing during regular use

Laszlo Boszormenyi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general,gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Organization Linux Support Center
Message-ID <1180190934.2474.6.camel@gcs>
Hi Justin,

On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 10:27 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Package: rdesktop
> Version: 1.5.0-1
> Kernel: 2.6.21.1
> 
> After a random amount of time using rdesktop, it segfaults using Debian 
> Testing on the x86 platform.
[...]
> I assume this is a Debian problem since nobody else is complaining about 
> it.  What would be the next steps?  To install the various *-debug 
> libraries rdesktop invokes, get another coredump and do a backtrace?
 This is known and fixed in 1.5.0-2 [1]; it just does not migrate to
testing due to the glibc transition[2][3]. It may migrate after a week
if it doesn't have more serious problems. If you really need rdesktop
then please upgrade to Sid and change back your sources.list to Lenny.

Regards,
Laszlo/GCS
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rdesktop/news/20070413T034702Z.html
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rdesktop.html
[3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/glibc.html
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