Re: libc5 applications (Netscape, StarOffice, WordPerfect) segfault
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On Tue, 02 Jun 1998, Tor Slettnes wrote:
>>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Zander <czander@okay.net> writes:
>
> >> It seems that if I have /usr/X11R6/lib in my $LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
> >> libc5 applications such as Netscape, StarOffice 4.0 and
> >> WordPerfect causes segmentation fault right away.
> >>
> >> I then tried the glibc2 (libc6) version of Netscape 4.05, and
> >> this did not happen.
> >>
> >> Also, if I 'unsetenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH' (or remove /usr/X11R6/lib
> >> from it) before starting these applications, they work fine.
> >>
> >> I put on an strace, and it seems that the segfault happens
> >> after a call to "getpid()". This call does not happen if I do
> >> not include /usr/X11R6/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Christian> you upgraded your system to libc6, right? I used to
> Christian> have the same problem. You can solve it by installing
> Christian> the libc5 packages from the oldlibs section.
>
>Sure, my libc5 is from 'oldlibs', version 5.4.38-1 to be exact.
>That is not the problem.
>
>Again, the problem goes away without /usr/X11R6/lib in
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
>-tor
it's not only the libc5 package, I don't exactly recall which packages I
installed to make it work, but it was many of them.
e.g. libelf0
ligjpeg6a
ncurses3.0
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