Re: bug in libc6

[Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <harsh@ee.byu.edu>]

Anders Larsson wrote:
> I updated unstable and now i cant run this icaclient. i did get this
> segfault from another app as well but cant remeber what app it was :)
>
>  libc6          2.3.2-2
> libc6-dev                  2.3.2-2 
>
> kernel 2.4.20
>
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica 
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x401b93bd in puts () from /lib/libc.so.6
I am having the same problem here with the icaclient. I beleive it is 
because of a libc incompatibility. Unstable and testing are now at a 
newer libc (for a long time now, actually), libc2.3 a.k.a glibc6.3 (or 
is it the other way around).

Well, icaclient is not the only commercial app that I have seen that 
falls prey to this. A CAD designing software also segfaults with the new 
libc (both of these work *great* on Woody, which has the older libc, 
horray for 'stable' :) . I hope the newer versions of these softwares 
fix this.

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Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Electrical Engineering Sysop
Brigham Young University - 84602