I've attached a patch to workaround the issue by allowing realpath() to internally allocate the memory from the heap, which we free later.
** Patch added: "Workaround" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44027760/hal-disable-polling.diff -- hal-disable-polling crash: buffer overflow detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530569 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs