Re: printing with firefox3?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:31:47 +0200
Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I think this is one, but I can generate a fresh dump if you want.
> > (But I think I have the patch installed everywhere, so I'll have to
> > build a new, buggy version...)
> 
> I am sure you have better things to do :-)
> The output below does have (hopefully sufficient) useful information,
> so I hope there is no need for you to build the buggy version.
> 
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > #0  0xb9bf2eb7 in __sigpending14 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> > (gdb) thread apply all bt
> > 
> > Thread 8 (process 80754):
> > #0  0xb9bf2597 in uuid_from_string () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> > #1  0xbaffa6b3 in save_yourself_cb ()
> > from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox3/libxul.so #2  0xb9c40490 in
> > __grscan_files () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12 #3  0xb038a05d in
> > EVP_sha512 () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.4 #4  0xb0364682 in
> > EVP_DigestFinal_ex () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.4 #5  0xb0350251
> > in RAND_SSLeay () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.4 #6  0xb0350430 in
> > RAND_SSLeay () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.4 #7  0xb034fe59 in
> > RAND_seed () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.4 #8  0xb1c9b70c in
> > httpInitialize () at http.c:1178
> 
> #8 is the call to RAND_seed from line 1178 in
>   http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/tags/release-1.3.9/cups/http.c
> so CUPS seems to have got in there somewhere.
> 
> I can't tell if this resulted in the core dump though.
> It would make things easier if it did :-)
> 
Ah -- it turns out that of the three machines where I'm seeing this
problem, one of them -- the one that generated this dump -- did have
the cups option.  But the other two don't...


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb