Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:55:42 -0400 From: Gary Stanley <gary@velocity-servers.net> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype core dumps as normal user Message-ID: <20080318025545.1EE088FC14@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200803171841.31327.beech@freebsd.org> References: <200803162311.25730.beech@freebsd.org> <200803171053.46283.beech@freebsd.org> <20080318020103.92FCB8FC2F@mx1.freebsd.org> <200803171841.31327.beech@freebsd.org>
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At 10:41 PM 3/17/2008, Beech Rintoul wrote: >On Monday 17 March 2008, Gary Stanley said: > > At 02:53 PM 3/17/2008, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > >On Monday 17 March 2008, Beech Rintoul said: > > > > On Monday 17 March 2008, Alexander Leidinger said: > > > > > Quoting Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> (from Sun, 16 Mar > > > > > 2008 > > > > > > > > > > 23:11:21 -0800): > > > > > > I've run into a problem starting skype as a normal user: > > > > > > > > > > > > $ skype --resources=/usr/local/share/skype > > > > > > *** glibc detected *** skype: double free or corruption > > > > > > (!prev): 0x092ad7f0 *** > > > > > > > > > > I remember some error reports like this (with other > > > > > programs). The outcome was either that we are not able to > > > > > find the cause, or that the glibc version used is broken (and > > > > > a newer one fixes the problem). I don't remember which of > > > > > those it was. Which linux base are you using? If it is fc4, > > > > > please try with a more recent one. If it is not fc4, please > > > > > try with fc4. > > > > > > > > > > If the problems occurs with both, it would be interesting to > > > > > know what is happening (this would involve building skype, > > > > > fontconfig and/or glibc with debug symbols). > > > > > > > > > > Bye, > > > > > Alexander. > > > > > >I was going to say. I'm running fc6 with 2.6.16. I'll ping the > > > Skype devs and see if they'll roll me a copy with debugging > > > turned on. > > > > Can you try a newer glibc version with 2.6.16? You can install it > > like this; > > > > cd /compat/linux && fetch > > > <ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/development/x86_64/os/Packages/glib>c-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm">ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/development/x86_ > >64/os/Packages/glibc-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm" Then you do a simple > > "rpm2cpio glibc-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm | cpio -idvu" > >Thank you, that fixed the problem :-) > >Beech As I've told roman in private mails, I think most of the problems with "glibc detected *** double free or corruption" messages are either a glibc bug that FreeBSD is triggering, or a FreeBSD bug that glibc is triggering. It's rather hard to say, however, I'm still testing a bunch of glibc rpms to see which ones are 'broken' -G
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