On 02/26/2015 10:31 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 2015-02-25 23:32, Jacco Ligthart wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Gordan notified me that he was unable to start X on his chromebook with >> RSEL6 (segfault) >> >> I dug a bit into that and narrowed it down to the pixman package. >> >> I am still not sure what the issue really is, but discovered that >> installing pixman from RSEL7 fixed the issue. The RSEL7 version is >> slightly older (it has one patch less). So for anybody else with this >> issue the following command should fix this: >> >> $ sudo yum downgrade pixman >> >> At first I thought that the extra patch was the issue, but building >> pixman without it still resulted in the segfault. >> I look at this as more a workaroud than a fix, but it works :) > > I am wondering if this has to do with gcc. I seem to recall that > your test updates repository includes a version of gcc that is > newer than what is in the main repository. > > A while back when I was testing this, I found that the newer > version of gcc builds and mostly works, but resulted in some > binaries being broken and segfaulting. > > If you are building your packages with this newer gcc, could this > be one of the manifestations of gcc issues? I just looked through > the patchset differences, and the 4.4.5 version includes an extra > libgcc patch which appears to be omitted in 4.4.7. Do you know if > this has been rolled into the 4.4.7 base? I'm wondering if it > might still be needed, even if the original patch no longer > applies cleanly. > > I'm purely going on the fact that if the source of the package is > the same, the root cause of the problem must be either in another > library being linked against or in the compiler. > I was thinking in the same direction, but thought "kernel-headers" although I do not understand how pixman would depend on that.
as for the 4.4.5 (libgcc_post_update -> lua) patch, yes that was rolled into 4.4.7 base. In 4.4.5 you disabled "Source1". This Source is not present in 4.4.7 to start with. Jacco _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
