#1120222 parcellite wayland crashes with segementation fault

Package:
parcellite
Source:
parcellite
Description:
lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager
Submitter:
P'tit g
Date:
2026-07-23 04:25:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1120222#5
Date:
2025-11-06 10:47:46 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

With wayland, parcellite crashes at startup. All is OK with X11.


$ gdb parcellite
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Reading symbols from parcellite...
(No debugging symbols found in parcellite)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/parcellite
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff5dff6c0 (LWP 49951)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff55fe6c0 (LWP 49952)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff4dfd6c0 (LWP 49953)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe7fff6c0 (LWP 49954)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe77fe6c0 (LWP 49955)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe6ffd6c0 (LWP 49956)]
[Detaching after fork from child process 49957]
Flag 0x0001, status 256, EXIT 1 STAT 1
[Detaching after fork from child process 49959]

Thread 1 "parcellite" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff720990e in XGetModifierMapping () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x00007ffff720990e in XGetModifierMapping () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
#1  0x000055555556934a in ?? ()
#2  0x00005555555695a4 in ?? ()
#3  0x000055555556494e in ?? ()
#4  0x000055555555d80a in ?? ()
#5  0x00007ffff7009ca8 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#6  0x00007ffff7009d65 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#7  0x000055555555dae1 in ?? ()

#1120222#10
Date:
2026-07-18 15:34:06 UTC
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To:
forwarded 1120222 https://github.com/rickyrockrat/parcellite/issues/134
retitle 1120222 parcellite wayland crashes with segmentation fault
stop

Just confirmed (thx to karora): the segmentation fault in a Wayland session still exists in Debian/sid.

Created an upstream bug report: https://github.com/rickyrockrat/parcellite/issues/134

Best from DebConf26 @ Santa Fe,
 - Darsha