severity 441975 serious thanks On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:57:42AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > clone 441975 -1 > reassign 441975 nvidia-glx > retitle 441975 nvidia-glx should only provide the TLS version > thanks > > Gallien Matthieu a écrit : > > I have checked if my computer can boot with the libc6 installed in both > > optimised and normal versions. > > There was only one problem : Xorg cannot start. > > It seems that there is some programs for which the behavior is different > > when > > libc6 optimised is not here or if it is disabled with ld.so.nohwcap. This > > include Qt binding for perl and Xorg. > > > > FYI the problem is that /etc/ld.so.nohwcaps disable all optimized > libraries and use the one from /usr/lib. NVidia had the idea to provide > a TLS version (in /usr/lib/tls) and a non-TLS version (in /usr/lib) of > their library. Disabling optimized libraries means that the non-TLS > version of the library is used. However, their code chose between TLS > and non-TLS code on a different way (a test code), which always succeed > on recent systems with NPTL library. This lead to a mix of TLS and > non-TLS code, leading to a crash. > > I will workaround to the glibc to also use tls/ directory even when > optimized libraries are disabled, as TLS is alway available in lenny. >
This workaround causes problems when upgrading from etch to lenny, so it will be removed in the next upload. As a consequence, this bug really has to be fixed, so I am upgrading it to serious. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
