Re: Segv

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Janine Restis wrote:
> > I have an ultra5 running woody...
> >
> > Did any1 was affected by mkfontir SIGSEGV while installing X fonts?
> >
> > Well actually it crashes also running it manually.
> > For this it cannot create  the file fonts.dir and X obviously doesn't
> > start.
> >
> > Dario
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this problem was reported on 1st Feb with the subject "mkfontdir in
> testing xutils (4.0.2) segfaults".
> I have the same problem, X doesn't work anymore.
> I was told it could be a glibc problem.
> 
> It seems to hit Ultra's. *shrugs*
> 
> An update didn't help yet.
> What glibc and kernel version are you running? I'm running kernel 2.4.1
> and glibc 2.2.1. I'm pretty sure it installed a new glibc the last time
> I upgraded and after that I encountered those problems.

It's an X problem, being built against outdated packages. Branden is
working on building a new set of packages.

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