From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 02:48:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03689106566B for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:48:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.alaskaparadise.com (freebsd.alaskaparadise.com [208.79.80.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E4B8FC1A for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:48:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from 137-42-178-69.gci.net (137-42-178-69.gci.net [69.178.42.137]) by freebsd.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F6D23836D9 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:48:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200803162311.25730.beech@freebsd.org> <200803171053.46283.beech@freebsd.org> <20080318020103.92FCB8FC2F@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080318020103.92FCB8FC2F@mx1.freebsd.org> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?iso-8859-1?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?iso-8859-1?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:48:50 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803171848.52304.beech@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Skype core dumps as normal user X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Beech Rintoul List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:48:56 -0000 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 (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 > 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------