Comment 13 for bug 216676

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 216676] Re: gnome-display-properties crashed on opening with SIGSEGV in rw_mode_get_width()

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:58 +0000, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:
> Perfect!
>
> Well, almost. No screens appear - I believe this is because I also
> *happen* to be suffering from (proposed) bug 216696 - i.e. X detects no
> monitors as being available. I'm hoping it's not a complicating factor.
>
> Either way, given these packages gnome-display-properties no longer
> crashes, and appears to work fine (given the situation).

Great, thanks for testing. It sounds as though you are suffering from
the exact problem that would trigger this bug.

However, there is a chance that the changes that were made to ease
debugging have actually masked the issue.

The change seems like a good one to have anyway, and we have a couple
of fixes pending for this package, so we will upload a new package
today, and it would be great if you could test that and confirm
that it still works. You'll see when the upload is done, as it will
close this bug report. A short while after that the packages will
be available. Note that using archive.ubuntu.com may be better here,
as you may be using a mirror that is slower to update.

If you could test the packages, and then confirm here that they work
that would be fantastic. If the problem re-appears could you please
re-open the bug (set the status back to "New") so that it is clear
to everyone that it needs work.

Thanks,

James