Bug#583858: (no subject)

[André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking@web.de>]

On Saturday 12 June 2010, you wrote:

> I really doubt it's the same problem. The reported bug only affected
> x86_64 users running on Core i7.

I can only tell you that I also had tried 2.11.1-1 before and had the same 
problem. And downgrading eglibc helped.

> Does only Qt related applications crashes or also other applications?

I only saw Qt related applications crash but I don't know if other apps are 
affected too. BTW, not all Qt apps crash only some.

> > (gdb) where
> > #0  0x000000000072a060 in strlen ()
> > #1  0x000000000045b4ba in qstrlen(char const*) ()
> > #2  0x0000000000594f47 in QString::fromLatin1_helper(char const*, int) ()
> > #3  0x00000000005950c8 in QString::fromAscii_helper(char const*, int) ()
> > #4  0x00000000005951c5 in QString::fromAscii(char const*, int) ()
> > #5  0x0000000000420b61 in QString::operator=(char const*) ()
> > #6  0x0000000000549ca5 in VCCustomBuildTool::VCCustomBuildTool() ()
> > #7  0x000000000054c894 in VCFilter::VCFilter() ()
> > #8  0x0000000000553539 in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0 ()
> > #9  0x0000000000553565 in global constructors keyed to
> > _ZN16VCCLCompilerToolC2Ev ()
> > #10 0x0000000000654d76 in __do_global_ctors_aux ()
> > #11 0x00000000006b664b in _init ()
> > #12 0x00007ffff7dc2c50 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> > #13 0x0000000000654cd5 in __libc_csu_init ()
> > #14 0x00007ffff72f0be0 in __libc_start_main (main=<value optimized out>,
> > argc=<value optimized out>, ubp_av=<value optimized out>,
> > 
> >     init=0x654c90 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x7ffff762e300 <initial>,
> > 
> > rtld_fini=0x7ffff7dc2420 <typeinfo for std::locale::facet>,
> > stack_end=0x7fffffffe0b8)
> > 
> >     at libc-start.c:187
> > 
> > #15 0x0000000000402779 in _start ()
> 
> Could you try to install libc6-dbg and do the backtrace again?

Err, this is with libc6-dbg installed.

The initialisation of static variables seems to be the problem. Is it done at a 
different time in 2.11?