On Dec 31, 2007 12:43 PM, Reinhard Nissl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > VDR User schrieb: > > > Also, there appears to be a problem with text2skin although it still > > works fine. If anyone cares to have a look and possibly fix it, > > that'd be great! > > > > The problem: > > > > Stopping: VDR > > *** glibc detected *** ./vdr: double free or corruption (fasttop): > > 0x0b1ba848 *** > > ======= Backtrace: ========= > > /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7c94ac5] > > /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7c98570] > > ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-text2skin.so.1.5.12(_ZN14cText2SkinI18nD0Ev+0x5f)[0xb746405f] > > ======= Memory map: ======== > > 08048000-08183000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 833366 > > /usr/local/dvb/vdr.source/vdr-1.5.12/vdr > > 08183000-0818c000 rw-p 0013a000 03:03 833366 > > /usr/local/dvb/vdr.source/vdr-1.5.12/vdr > > 0818c000-0b973000 rw-p 0818c000 00:00 0 [heap] > > The problem is that text2skin's i18n.c uses the old structure > tI18nPhrase which contains only 22 text entries, but iterates over > I18nLanguages()->Size() entries -- and in my case, Size() returns 23, so > cText2SkinI18n::Parse() will overwrite stack variables and finally cause > the above double free. > > As a quick workaround, modify VDR's i18n.h, e. g. like that: > > typedef const char *tI18nPhrase[4*22]; ///< obsolete - switch to 'gettext'!
Thanks for the info Reinhard! I know several people who have been asking about that problem and will forward what you've shared. Btw, do you know if anyone is working on fixing text2skin or? Cheers _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
