Re: HELP WANTED: doogiebug strikes latest XFree86 packages
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
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> [A doogiebug is defined as either:
>
> * a bug that affects only you, and no one else in the world, and
> therefore doesn't get fixed because the world is indifferent to some
> random plight that they are convinced you brought upon yourself by
> doing things like placing trusted data in the hands of the very first
> version of reiserfs ever; or
>
> * a bug that affects everyone else in the world BUT you, which it is your
> resposibility to fix, but you don't because by some miracle you are
> personally unscathed by it]
>
> At any rate, tweaking of Adam Heath aside:
>
> Two people have reported runtime linking errors with the latest XFree86 4
> packages on i386. I cannot reproduce these. I am running my own latest
> versions of the packages, am using bleeding-edge Debian unstable -- updated
> today -- and have rebooted in an effort to reproduce the problem. No dice.
> My xdm and xterm refuse to break.
>
> I need:
>
> 1) people to look at bugs 90622, 90658, and 90661;
> 2) people to offer ideas about what the heck might be going wrong
>
> Thanks very much for your help.
I saw and fixed something similar-- on looking with ldd, I found that
it ld.so was finding /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 before
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6. I don't know how /etc/ld.so.conf is built
and maintained by dpkg, but for some reason, /usr/X11R6/lib was last
in the search path. Moving it up to before /usr/lib/libc5-compat and
running ldconfig fixed the problem for me, although strictly speaking,
my problem came when I ran nethack (in text mode, no less) and it
couldn't find an Xmu symbol, _XA_UTF8_STRING_. My xterm probably
broke, too, though; I haven't run any real X programs since the
update, since I both updated and ran since via ssh, but in testing,
xterm breaks with the old ld.so.conf, and works with the new.
- M
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