From 1d885c11e076f1a10fac580766f7d06ccaa0b3bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 07:49:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix segfault in zbar init, issue #1059

---
 lib/qrscanner.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/qrscanner.py b/lib/qrscanner.py
index 38cc1f3d0..419635c91 100644
--- a/lib/qrscanner.py
+++ b/lib/qrscanner.py
@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ def scan_qr(config):
         device = config.get("video_device", "default")
         if device == 'default':
             device = ''
-        proc = zbar.Processor()
-        proc.init(video_device=device)
+        _proc = zbar.Processor()
+        _proc.init(video_device=device)
+        # set global only if init did not raise an exception
+        proc = _proc
+
 
     proc.visible = True
     while True: