Bug#205328: libc6: mathematica segfaults, too
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #205328
gotom wrote in this bug report log:
>I don't have any interests non-opensource non-free commercial packages
>written in this original report (so I plan to just close),
Please, please, reconsider your position in this question. It could move
Debian in a niche for purists.
I run as a sysadmin over 60 Debian Linux boxes for scientists in a university
institute for theoretical physics and a institute for mathematics. This would
be impossible without e.g. Mathematica for Linux or Maple for Linux running on
these computers. People need this software for their daily work.
(Please don't point me to free computer algebra systems like Maxima or Octave.
I know them and their abilities.)
The statically linked mathematica "kernel" is one more piece of software
that segfaults with libc6 2.3.2
The problem is not urgent, Woody is working fine, but when the situation
stays this way, the next update could sweep away Debian from our computers.
Please, at least publish some kind of workaround for this problem
(using something like LD_PRELOAD? Is this possible with a static binary?)
Regards,
Meik
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Meik Hellmund
Institut fuer Mathematik, Uni Leipzig
e-mail: Meik.Hellmund@math.uni-leipzig.de
http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund
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