From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chip Coldwell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <87ps4udwnn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179761327 20429 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 15:28:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 17:28:46 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 1Hq9oT-0004J3-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:28:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9oT-0003ip-EH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9oP-0003ij-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9oN-0003iX-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9oN-0003iQ-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq9oM-0007qx-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LFSXda019746; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.boston.redhat.com (mail.boston.redhat.com [172.16.76.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LFSXXa002401; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from bogart.boston.redhat.com (bogart.boston.redhat.com [172.16.80.240]) by mail.boston.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LFSXeM017199; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ps4udwnn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> 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:71523 Archived-At: On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chong Yidong wrote: > Chip Coldwell writes: > > > > > 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 OK, sounds reasonable to me. Chip -- Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc 978-392-2426