On 30 Dec 1997, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > I was just upgrading a system from [hamm a few weeks old] to [hamm > today] using, for the first time, dftp (instead of a mirror and manual > dpkg -BORGiE runs.) I selected libnfslock, it created > /etc/ld.so.preload, and since then any attempt to run a dynamic linked > program gives a message, BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so, and something > about "i == npreloads". (The broken machine is back at my office, > waiting for a root floppy [the rescue disk alone is useless in this > case] or I'd get it exactly...) > > Just thought I'd warn people about it (since I've benefitted from > similar warnings here :-) though I haven't had a chance to debug it > more precisely... in particular, to figure out if it's only an ld.so > bug or if it's also a bug in the libnfslock package (it probably > warrants a predepends, or something, in libnfslock even if the only > bug is in ld.so.)
It is a bug in ld-linux.so.2 (included in libc6) which appeared in libc6_2.0.6-1 and is fixed in libc6_2.0.6-2, now waiting to be moved from incoming. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
