More libc5.4.7 problems
I installed libc 5.4.7-1 the day it came to Incoming, and found that it
killed my ability to print. I would send things to be printed, and when I
ran lpq, it would report the task. I second later, if I ran lpq again, it
would show nothing. Unfortunately, my printer showed nothing either. I
downgraded back to 5.2.18, and I could print again (but the old print jobs
had gone permanently to the great bucket of bits in the sky). I should
have mentioned it, but I have been very busy... It may also have killed gv
(but I don't remember for sure...) I am using lpr 5.9-12, and apsfilter
4.9.1-7 to print with, and I know it certainly broke one of these, but I
really needed that paper printed immediately, so I didn't investigate at the
time. Stupid thesis!
-Erik
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Helmut Geyer wrote:
>
> >
> > Lawrence Chim writes:
> > > Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
> > > bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
> >
> > Lawrence reported this to me earlier. I had not seen any problems at
> > that time but am now. Is anyone else having problems with libc 5.4.7
> > and/or know of the fix?
> >
> Which netscape version is this? Every single bus error I ever had with
> netscape (besides some buggy libc.so.5.3.*) was due to the fact that
> the Xpm library changed internally from 4.6 to 4.7 or to the buggy
> Java code in the series 3 netscapes (3.01b1 really is much better there).
> As the Motif version Netscape is compiled with uses the older interface,
> there will be problems with 4.7 (This move without changing major number
> was really bad). Once I installed the old library (just for netscape's use)
> and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a script calling netscape, I only got problems
> with java. I'm just running netscape on some problematic sites and have no
> problem at all.
> As soon as I remove libXpm.so.4.6 from thee library search path (or
> put it behind libXpm.so.4.7), I get the bus errors. I think that the new
> libc just triggers the older bug far more reliable than the old
> libc.so.5.2.18 which sometimes would run netscape even with the wrong
> libXpm.
>
> Helmut
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