Bug#534312: upgrade of libc6 causes SEGFAULTs

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

In 2009, Ulf Hermann wrote:

>> You say you are using libc6 from unstable on a lenny system. What is the
>> list of packages you tried to upgrade?
>
> I tried to install a full KDE 4.2, that's quite a lot of packages and some of
> them depend on the newer libc - I don't know which ones. Yet, that's not
> necessary to reproduce the bug. I reverted everything to plain lenny (without
> any KDE). Then everything was OK again. Then I noticed that menu itself is the
> same in lenny and unstable and ran ldd on it to find out what might be
> responsible for the crash. Then I _only_ upgraded libc and locales (like stated
> above) and that's enough to make update-menus crash.

Sorry for the long silence.  Before investigating this more, I should
ask: can you still reproduce this?  If not, do you remember what change
made it go away?

Thanks and sorry for the trouble,
Jonathan