Bug#323140: earth3d: Failure to start
The problem might be caused by the application (or another library) attempting to dlopen() libXmu.so instead of libXmu.so.6. This is bad because the .so symlinks to a shared library are, per policy, only provided by -dev packages. Moving those symlinks to the regular shlib package is the wrong thing to do because anyone using dlopen() has a certain expectation about the soversion of the object they're opening -- after all, they expect certain symbols to be present. Just my speculative guess, having seen a similar problem before. -- G. Branden Robinson| Wanton killing of innocent Debian GNU/Linux | civilians is terrorism, not a war [EMAIL PROTECTED] | against terrorism. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Noam Chomsky signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#323140: earth3d: Failure to start
Thank you for your interest in earth3d. :) [Ingo Saitz] 1. It is linked against libXmu.so.6, so why does it try to open it again? I have no idea. I believed dh_shlibdeps in debian/rules would do the right thing. 2. Loading libXmu.so will fail if it points to another ABI version of the library, please open the library by its soname (libXmu.so.6). Is there a bug in libXmu making dh_shlibdeps fail to do the right thing? I'm open for suggestions, but I did not do anything special to the code and hoped it would be correct. 3. The .so link is in the -dev package, which is, being not a dependency, not guaranteed to be intalled. But don't depend on it; see 2. Yes, installing libxmu-dev is a workaround for this bug. I welcome explanations on what is going on here, and how it ended up searching for the wrong library name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#323140: earth3d: Failure to start
Package: earth3d Version: 1.0.2-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 $ earth3d registered plane size: 1 registered sphere size: 2 PATH: /usr/bin Unable to resolve Xmu symbols - please check your Xmu library installation. $ The strace shows it searches for libXmu.so, and fails to do so in /usr/X11R6/lib. 1. It is linked against libXmu.so.6, so why does it try to open it again? 2. Loading libXmu.so will fail if it points to another ABI version of the library, please open the library by its soname (libXmu.so.6). 3. The .so link is in the -dev package, which is, being not a dependency, not guaranteed to be intalled. But don't depend on it; see 2. Ingo - -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.3-schwan20050805 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages earth3d depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-3GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-4 GCC support library ii libglu1-xorg [libglu1]6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 Mesa OpenGL utility library [X.Org ii libpng12-01.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.4-7 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++64.0.1-4The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous util ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 Mesa 3D graphics library [X.Org] ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m earth3d recommends no packages. - -- no debconf information -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC/9Bx4XrXtQkN2NURAhW7AJ9LIDLZ50z8LND4d4htVK8VDF3VoACfbe+N a1ru3gT3qgSgaFHoPnkmCsc= =wzf4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
