Re: Emacs 21~22 crash on Fedora 10

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Recently Emacs 21.1~22.3 having been installed in the Fedora 10
> Linux box got to crash.  Rebuilding does not help.  I guess some
> of the recent updates in Fedora 10 caused it, but I'm ignorant
> of those changes, sorry.
[...]
> The backtrace I caught with Emacs 22.3 built today is attached.
[...]
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0085d1eb in call_init () at dl-init.c:70
> 70	      init (argc, argv, env);
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0085d1eb in call_init () at dl-init.c:70
> #1  _dl_init (main_map=0x858a2e8, argc=3, argv=0xbffff3c4, env=0xbffff3d4)
>     at dl-init.c:134
> #2  0x008618d2 in dl_open_worker (a=0xbfffea7c) at dl-open.c:516
> #3  0x0085cdb6 in _dl_catch_error (objname=0xbfffeaa4, errstring=0xbfffeaa0,
>     mallocedp=0xbfffeaab, operate=0x861510 <dl_open_worker>, args=0xbfffea7c)
>     at dl-error.c:178
> #4  0x00860f5e in _dl_open (file=0xbfffec10 "libnss_files.so.2",
>     mode=-2147483647, caller_dlopen=0x0, nsid=-2, argc=3, argv=0xbffff3c4,
>     env=0xbffff3d4) at dl-open.c:596
[...]
> #14 0x0810cef5 in init_system_name () at sysdep.c:2416
> #15 0x0815b14e in init_editfns () at editfns.c:142
> #16 0x080f3c3d in main (argc=3, argv=0xbffff3c4) at emacs.c:1683

This seems to be caused by a bug of libnss_files-2.9.so bundled
with glibc-2.9-3.i686.rpm.  Replacing it with libnss_files-2.8.so
of Fedora 9 did the trick.  Now all Emacs 21.1~22.3 revived.
I'll go to the fedora community...