On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:50:08PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:05:59 -0700, > John Wong wrote: > > cmdlinkespeak worked fine with libc6-2.3.1-17. It started seg faulting with > > 2.3.2 (frist version tried was 2.3.2-2). cmdlinespeak still seg faults > > with 2.3.2-6. When I attempt to keep the system at libc6-2.3.1-17, apt > > breaks as well as perl and others. > > If glibc breaks many other apps, then the system becomes unusable. I > wonder it's related with cmdlinkespeak.
The problem does appear to be with cmdlinespeak. Unfortunately, it (ViaVoice) was a binary only release from IBM which does not look to be availble for Linux anymore. > > This problem is also brought up in with RedHat: > > > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98768 > > This bugzilla has been closed without glibc problem. I believe it was a change in glibc which brought cmdlinespeak's brokeness to light. > At Sat, 27 Sep 2003 04:39:53 -0400, > Andrew K. Bressen wrote: > > I'm running an x86 debian system, mostly woody with a few sarge packages. > > The transition from libc6 and locales 2.3.1-16 to 2.3.2-7 broke > > non-debian stuff for me too; I had to back it out. > > > > Among the affected apps were compupic (v5.1 build 1063), > > netrek (Paradise Client 2000rc2) and unison (static textui 2.9.1). > > > > All are static compiles, and strace seemed to indicate > > things were breaking at or just after nss stuff; > > a strace of compupic follows... > > > > I have a system that I could roll the change back into temporarily > > if further testing is desired. > > We have 2.3.2.ds1-13. It's upper version of 2.3.2. However, NSS code > was changed in 2.3.2.ds1-1 and many static linked application was > broken. We can't fix this problem. If you want to use such > applications, please use LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point > to the old glibc 2.3.1 extracted directory. > > I think there's no bug in glibc. The workaround LD_LIBRARY_PATH > should avoid your problem. If you have no objection, I'll close this > bug. I can't test this solution now since the sarge system was rolled back to woody with a reinstall. John > Regards, > -- gotom > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
