Bug#210669: other apps also break
At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:05:59 -0700,
John Wong wrote:
> cmdlinkespeak worked fine with libc6-2.3.1-17. It started seg faulting with
> 2.3.2 (frist version tried was 2.3.2-2). cmdlinespeak still seg faults
> with 2.3.2-6. When I attempt to keep the system at libc6-2.3.1-17, apt
> breaks as well as perl and others.
If glibc breaks many other apps, then the system becomes unusable. I
wonder it's related with cmdlinkespeak.
> This problem is also brought up in with RedHat:
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98768
This bugzilla has been closed without glibc problem.
At Sat, 27 Sep 2003 04:39:53 -0400,
Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
> I'm running an x86 debian system, mostly woody with a few sarge packages.
> The transition from libc6 and locales 2.3.1-16 to 2.3.2-7 broke
> non-debian stuff for me too; I had to back it out.
>
> Among the affected apps were compupic (v5.1 build 1063),
> netrek (Paradise Client 2000rc2) and unison (static textui 2.9.1).
>
> All are static compiles, and strace seemed to indicate
> things were breaking at or just after nss stuff;
> a strace of compupic follows...
>
> I have a system that I could roll the change back into temporarily
> if further testing is desired.
We have 2.3.2.ds1-13. It's upper version of 2.3.2. However, NSS code
was changed in 2.3.2.ds1-1 and many static linked application was
broken. We can't fix this problem. If you want to use such
applications, please use LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point
to the old glibc 2.3.1 extracted directory.
I think there's no bug in glibc. The workaround LD_LIBRARY_PATH
should avoid your problem. If you have no objection, I'll close this
bug.
Regards,
-- gotom
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