Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:09:28 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: MITA Yoshio <mita@ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype core dumps as normal user Message-ID: <83313575@bs1.sp34.ru> In-Reply-To: <7ozlmjag2w.wl%mita@ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> (MITA Yoshio's message of "Sun\, 07 Sep 2008 21\:52\:55 %2B0200") References: <7ozlmjag2w.wl%mita@ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:52:55 +0200 MITA Yoshio wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:11:21 -0800 Beech Rintoul wrote: > > > > > 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 *** > > > ======= Backtrace: ========= > > > /lib/libc.so.6[0x295c3f64] > > > /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x295c7630] > > > /lib/libc.so.6(closedir+0x28)[0x295e8308] > > > /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcDirScan+0x1f2)[0x2931321d] > > > /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcConfigBuildFonts+0x94)[0x2930dd51] > > > /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcInitLoadConfigAndFonts+0x26)[0x293150b3] > > > /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcInit+0x2e)[0x293152b0] > > > > [skip] > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas on where to go with this, or should I kick > > > it upstream? > > > > Looks like http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117010 . > Yes it appears to be the same problem reported at pr=117010. By > applying the patch posted as a followup to that PR, my skype begun > to work correctly. It will be great if you can write a follow-up to the PR so this information won't get lost. > The strange thing is that, using the identical packages and on the > same 7.0-RELEASE, skype on one computer works, but another > doesn't. Maybe it depends on font path configuration? as skype > seems to crash on font configuration. AFAIK directoriea are read by a program by blocks, say 1024 bytes long. If it so happens that current portion of directory entries equals to that length, than that error occures. > All the best, > Tested Environment: > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE > linux_base-fc6-6_5 Seems that there were reports that the patch you had used is not needed with linux_base-f8 port. > linux-glib2-2.6.6 > skype-2.0.0.68,1 > /etc/sysctl.conf: > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 > /etc/make.conf: > OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=fc6 WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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