Bug#210669: other apps also break
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:50:08PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> 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.
The problem does appear to be with cmdlinespeak. Unfortunately, it
(ViaVoice) was a binary only release from IBM which does not look to be
availble for Linux anymore.
> > 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.
I believe it was a change in glibc which brought cmdlinespeak's
brokeness to light.
> 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.
I can't test this solution now since the sarge system was rolled back to
woody with a reinstall.
John
> Regards,
> -- gotom
>
>
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