Re: [Synaptic-devel] gtk failure for synaptic.

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Michael Vogt wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:40:10PM -0500, Roy F. Cabaniss wrote:
> > > A few days ago I had a problem with the db package. Turns out that there
> > > are two versions of glibc and db: i586 and i686. My glibc was the i586
> > > version and the db was the i686 version, a wrong combination. Removing the
> > > i686 db package and installing the i586 one solved my problem.
> > >
> > > Another shot: open a root konsole via <Alt>-<F2> with:
> > >
> > 
> > nope same problem (I get a seg fault also when I try this)
> 
> Can you provide a gdb backtrace for the segfault? I would be
> interessted where exactly it crashes (start "gdb synaptic" and type
> "r<enter>" and after the crash "br<enter>"). 
> 
> I don't have a 64bit machine, but I will ask around to get access to
> one :)

FWIW I haven't seen any such problems with Synaptic on RHEL 3 x86_64 so I 
doubt it's a 64bit issue but something else. Or then it's something 
Suse/distro/version-specific.

        - Panu -