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stopmotion package

stopmotion allways writes empty preferences.xml, crashing on the next start

Bug #300041 reported by Florian Hars
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: stopmotion

On almost every run I have observed so far, stopmotion has written an empty .stopmotion/preferenxes.xml (even if there was a nonempty one before), with the result that it can no longer start:

$ stopmotion
/home/hars/.stopmotion/preferences.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
/home/hars/.stopmotion/preferences.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
Segmentation fault

A program shouldn't segfault on reading a file that it has written itself.

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
stopmotion:
  Installed: 0.6.2-1
  Candidate: 0.6.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.2-1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Florian Hars (hars) wrote :

This happens if I start stopmotion in an UTF-8 locale, if I start it with LC_ALL=C, it writes a nonempty preferences.xml.

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michote (michote) wrote :

I've the same problem

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Ian (superian) wrote :

I have the 'it won't run a second time' problem, but with an error message if ~/.stopmotion exists:

"You do not have the necessary permissions to run Stopmotion.
You need permission to read, write and execute on ~/.stopmotion"

Needless to say it does have the right permissions. It also has a nonempty preferences.xml (and is copied to preferences.xml.OLD and a new one written before the error!)

Deleting the xml files and rerunning the program results in a new nonempty preferences.xml being created and the same error.

Deleting the directory and rerunning the program works.

ian@CORE2:~$ dpkg -s stopmotion
Package: stopmotion
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 4312
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6.2-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.1), libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.1), libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.5), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libtar, libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.1.2), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.6.27)
Recommends: vgrabbj, dvgrab, ffmpeg
Suggests: gimp

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