In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from Ryan Kirkpatrick on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful? > > > > > > Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...) > > > > Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom > > one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library. > > I am having exactly the same problem with squake on my Debian 2.0 > system as well, only I have a Matrox Millium(sp?) card. 'ldd `which > squake.real`' gives me: Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the better, however we don't want to compromise security. Have you tried other SVGAlib programs. > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000) > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40051000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4010f000) > ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x401b4000) > > Something is definetely wierd here, as linking to two libc (different > versions no less) can not be good for the health. I have tried different > values for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD, but to no avail. Have you tried "unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH; unset LD_PRELOAD" - you may be forcing something nasty upon squake. > The only lead I have on this is that Netscape 4.x was giving me > simular problems to this as well. If I hand installed a copy of netscape > into /usr/local/..., it would segfault on start, and an ldd showed that > that it has also linked to both libc's, 5 and 6. When I feed the debian > wrapper package for netscape the same tar.gz distrib file as I had used to > install manually, netscape magically got installed in such a way that it > looks for only libc5. Wierd - the netscape wrapper script doesn't appear to do anything to the library loading. "ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape" shows libc5 stuff only. What are the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf? Here are mine: /usr/X11R6/lib/neXtaw /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat > From this, I suspect that the problem has little to do with svga > lib or video cards, but with messed up linking. I need to look at the > source to the debian wrapper package for netscape, the answer probably > lies there, but I have not had time yet. > My two cents, hope they help! I agree - the dynamic loader seems to have got confused what versions of these packages are you using (dpkg -s package-name): libc5 5.4.38-11 libc6 2.0.7t-1 ldso 1.9.9-5 I'm running slink (aka unstable) - last upgraded about a fortnight ago (two weeks for Americans and other non-English readers <g>) so your versions are likely to be a bit older. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
