glib-2.36.3_1 causes open-vm-tools core dump

[Harry Weppner]

Hi there,

are there any near-term plans to update the devel/glib20 port to version 2.37.0 (or later)? I’ve run into an open-vm-tools core dump (cf. original issue report below) that is resolved with 2.37.0 or by applying this patch:



Thanks & cheerio, Harry.

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> From: "Ravindra Kumar" <ravindravmw at users.sf.net>
> Subject: [open-vm-tools:tracker] #176 vmtoolsd from 9.2.3-1031360 crashes with a SIGABRT on FreeBSD 9.1
> Date: February 13, 2014 at 6:06:24 PM PST
> To: "[open-vm-tools:tracker] " <176 at tracker.open-vm-tools.p.re.sf.net>
> Reply-To: "[open-vm-tools:tracker] " <176 at tracker.open-vm-tools.p.re.sf.net>
> 
> This is not an open-vm-tools bug as such. This is a lock related bug in glib 2.36. It has been fixed as https://bug697595.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=241179. I found that fix is available in glib 2.37.0 and later versions.
> 
> Given that this is a glib issue, either glib needs to be upgraded to a version 2.37.0 (or later) or this patch (https://bug697595.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=241179) should be applied in glib you are using.
> 
> [tracker:#176] vmtoolsd from 9.2.3-1031360 crashes with a SIGABRT on FreeBSD 9.1
> 
> Status: closed
> Created: Thu Aug 29, 2013 01:25 PM UTC by Douglas Carmichael
> Last Updated: Wed Dec 11, 2013 06:23 PM UTC
> Owner: nobody
> 
> Setup: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4, VMware Fusion Technology Preview
> 
> When I install open-vm-tools 9.2.3-1031360 on FreeBSD, everything installs/compiles fine, but vmtoolsd crashes with a SIGABRT on reboot.
> 
> Looking at a backtrace from gdb, it seems to crash on line 66 in mainLoop.c (g_main_loop_unref(state->ctx.mainLoop);), then goes into glib.
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