From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:27:40 -0400 Message-ID: <87ps4udwnn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179761151 19728 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 15:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chip Coldwell Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 17:25:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hq9la-0003YF-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:25:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9lZ-0002Gc-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:25:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9lW-0002GH-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9lU-0002Dj-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9lU-0002Dd-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.19.1.138]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq9lU-0007Pr-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 55AD94EBAC; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:27:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Chip Coldwell's message of "Mon\, 21 May 2007 10\:47\:19 -0400 \(EDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71522 Archived-At: Chip Coldwell writes: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Chong Yidong wrote: >> >> Therefore, I propose adding the following entry to the Emacs PROBLEMS >> file. >> >> >> ** Emacs crashes on startup on Fedora Core 7. > > We very genuinely hope to get this fixed in glibc before Fedora 7 > (note that they are dropping the "Core") ships, so hopefully the > PROBLEMS entry will not be necessary. I think there is no harm documenting this, in case anyone happens to use the affected versions of glibc. I'v added the following text to PROBLEMS. ** Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade. This is caused by a binary incompatible change to the malloc implementation in glibc 2.5.90-22. As a result, Emacs binaries built using prior versions of glibc crash when run under 2.5.90-22. This problem was first seen in pre-release versions of Fedora 7, and may be fixed in the final Fedora 7 release. To stop the crash from happening, first try upgrading to the newest version of glibc; if this does not work, rebuild Emacs with the same version of glibc that you will run it under. For details, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344