Bug#172995: libc6: all Gnome1 / Gtk1.2 apps die with SIGSEG since upgrade to libc6 2.3.1
At Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:27:31 +0200 (EET),
Martin--b�ic Racine wrote:
> > > Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
> > > ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
> >
> > Please send us more information, at least gtk+/sigseg apps/gdb version. I
> > suspect your environment, it may be broken? Please recheck your machine
> > before sending bug report.
>
> I doubt that very much. All my i386 and my hppa boxes experienced the same
> problem, as soon as libc6 2.3.1 forced itself as some package's dependency.
Then... how do we act about it? From this report, we can get only
your complaints. Please send us each related package versions.
> > I think if your bug is common problem for all users, then we libc6 team may
> > be buried in many bug reports already :-)
>
> Actually, you already are.
It's not "many".
> I just noticed several other messages reporting similar SIGSEG problems for
> various other apps (not just Gnome/GTK), since upgrading to libc6 2.3.1, and it
> appears that everybody fixed the problem by downgrading libc6 version to what's
> in testing.
>
> Some people responded that it might be caused by nss not being restarted, others
> that it might be related to locales. I have tried both of that and not found it
> to be improving anything.
Sigsegv is the most popular crash. The result of your trial says it
may be another bug or something, IMHO.
-- gotom
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