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Bug#817826: libc6: Symbol __h_errno, version GLIBC_PRIVATE, no longer exposed in libc.so.6



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On Thursday, March 10, 2016 08:17:06 PM you wrote:
> control: retitle -1 libc6: kmail can't find symbol __h_errno@@GLIBC_PRIVATE
> control: tag -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On 2016-03-10 18:45, Pierre Ducroquet wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.22-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > After upgrading libc6 to 2.22 from 2.19 through classical apt upgrade, I
> > noticed some applications stopped working, mainly my email client (KMail)
> > which stopped sending emails.
> > The following error appears now in my xsession logs :
> > Cannot load library /usr/lib/kde4/kio_smtp.so:
> > (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2: symbol __h_errno, version
> > GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference)
> The libc.so.6 exports __h_errno@@GLIBC_PRIVATE the same way in both
> glibc 2.19 and 2.22 (and also in 2.21). So this error is clearly not a
> missing symbol in libc.so.6.
> 
> Have you restarted kmail since the upgrade?

Please accept my apologies, I restarted kmail but forgot that KIO processes 
are launched by kdeinit4, and that this process was the one to restart since 
it forks the KIOs.
Indeed there is no such problem after a complete restart of the session.

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