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Re: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem
From: |
Chip Coldwell |
Subject: |
Re: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem |
Date: |
Mon, 21 May 2007 11:28:33 -0400 (EDT) |
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Chip Coldwell <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >
> > We very genuinely hope to get this fixed in glibc before Fedora 7
> > (note that they are dropping the "Core") ships, so hopefully the
> > PROBLEMS entry will not be necessary.
>
> I think there is no harm documenting this, in case anyone happens to
> use the affected versions of glibc. I'v added the following text to
> PROBLEMS.
>
>
> ** Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade.
>
> This is caused by a binary incompatible change to the malloc
> implementation in glibc 2.5.90-22. As a result, Emacs binaries built
> using prior versions of glibc crash when run under 2.5.90-22.
>
> This problem was first seen in pre-release versions of Fedora 7, and
> may be fixed in the final Fedora 7 release. To stop the crash from
> happening, first try upgrading to the newest version of glibc; if this
> does not work, rebuild Emacs with the same version of glibc that you
> will run it under. For details, see
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344
OK, sounds reasonable to me.
Chip
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Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc
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