> Btw the only changes to my system I can think of were some security updates,
> mostly xorg but I cannot see any connection.
After a lot of trouble I have verified that the xorg security update is the
reason for lazarus stopping to work. I downgraded the xserver and all its
dependencies manually and now lazarus starts again.
For the time being I can keep the old version of xorg but I think this is a
real problem as I like to keep my system updated in regard to security issues.
These are the details about the vulnerability from the Ubuntu security notes:
A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the
pixmap allocation handling of the X server. By allocating a huge
pixmap, a local user could trigger an integer overflow that resulted
in a memory allocation that was too small for the requested pixmap.
This resulted in a buffer overflow which could eventually be exploited
to execute arbitrary code with full root privileges.
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