Re: mkfontdir in testing xutils(4.0.2) segfaults
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, John Ello wrote:
> Hi. I'm very new to Sparcs, but managed to get debian installed on the
> Ultra 2 my boss dropped on my desk. I used the potato CD image to boot,
> then upgraded it to testing. Everything works ok, except when trying to
> install X font stuff, it's failing because mkfontdir segfaults. This is
> happening both with the default (potato) kernel, and the 2.4.1 custom
> kernel I compiled. Is there something I'm maybe doing wrong, or should I
> file a bug report? Thanks for any help anyone could offer.
Hi,
I've got a Ultra 1 running debian pretty well. Today I upgraded and
encountered the same problems. My apt-get output was looking the same
as below. To install the xfont stuff anyways I copied mkfontdir into
another dir and replaced the original file with /usr/bin/true.
After that the install worked and I moved mkfontdir back.
My current problem ist that X doesn't work anymore. It gives me the
following error message:
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X
server.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
I did a strace of X and got the exact same segfault at the same
line as the strace of mkfontdir below.
> (apt-get output below)
-- snipped error messages --
> (strace of mkfontdir (I'm not sure if this is helpful))
-- snipped strace --
> munmap(0x7001c000, 14419) = 0
> getpid() = 539
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++>
The memory address is also the same. I was told that this means to be a
libc problem.
Any suggestions as of what to do about it?
CU
Janine
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