W dniu 09.02.2010 01:30, Michael Schwendt pisze: > On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:07 +0100, Julian wrote: > >> I orphaned gnome-applet-netspeed a few days ago due to bugs being >> reported and dead upstream. I did not have the skills necessary to fix >> this myself. The initial plan was to retire the package, but since Erik >> van Pienbroek said he'll have a look, I decided to orphan the package >> instead. >> All in all, the person picking this up should probably assume the role >> of the upstream maintainer as well. If no one steps up, I think this >> package should get retired properly. > > I've had a brief look at the open tickets, squashed one duplicate. > > At least two show symptoms of memory corruption. They crashed in > g_object_unref with a saved icon reference that isn't modified by the > applet (because it must not be modified except for unref'ing it). > > One crash is deep in Pango layout, with no call trace from within the > netspeed applet. With memory corruption somewhere, that backtrace > doesn't tell much else. Unless one is intimately familiar with Pango > and can rule out a problem in Pango. The netspeed applet only calls > a very few layout functions. Noticably, the reporter also had Firefox > crash at the same time (!). > > A third crash is deep in gtkiconcache code with no obvious error in the > related netspeed applet code. Could also be a side-effect of memory > corruption. > > Btw, at least one reporter had the applet display wireless network speed > and signal quality. I just realised that upstream rolled out a new release, 0.16. Several bugs seems to have been fixed, so maybe it's worth bringing the package back from the dead? Julian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
