Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:15:45 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: Gary Stanley <gary@velocity-servers.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype core dumps as normal user Message-ID: <200803171915.48188.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080318025545.1EE088FC14@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <200803162311.25730.beech@freebsd.org> <200803171841.31327.beech@freebsd.org> <20080318025545.1EE088FC14@mx1.freebsd.org>
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On Monday 17 March 2008, Gary Stanley said: > 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/gl > >ib>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 BTW, just for the record 2.7.90-7 isn't available at that server, so I went with 2.7.90-9. Also I wasn't seeing this as root, only with a normal user if that info helps any. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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