I upgraded to potato from slink yesterday, and the process was in general very smooth indeed---the easiest upgrade I've done.
I'm left with one problem though. Gnumeric seg-faults every time it's called. This is a disappoinment, because one of the reasons that I wanted to do this upgrade was the improved quality of gnumeric in potato over slink (I use it on a different machine which I had upgraded to potato some months ago; it works OK there). The crash happens under kernel 2.0.36 and under the pre-release of 2.2.17 that ships with potato. I've looked at the bug reports against gnumeric and taken some steps on that basis (upgrading to libglade0 v.13) but the problem continues. I haven't got all of Gnome installed---just enough to run gnumeric. Has anyone else experienced such a problem? Below is the extent of the debugging I've been able to do. I'd really appreciate any help or advice, Jim --------- [jim:~] gdb gnumeric core GNU gdb 19990928 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `gnumeric --disable-crash-dialog'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnomeprint.so.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libglade-gnome.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libglade.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxml.so.1...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libart_lgpl.so.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnomesupport.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libdb.so.3...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_compat.so.2...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_sample.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_stat.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_lotus.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_oleo.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_sc.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_sylk.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_csv.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_text.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_xbase.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_html.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_dif.so...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_python.so...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done. #0 0x404f859d in fputs () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x404f859d in fputs () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4049cfcd in g_print ( format=0x4062b7a0 "Gnumeric/Python module initialized\n") at gmessages.c:660 #2 0x405f2e14 in _init () from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_python.so #3 0x405f2ed9 in init_plugin () from /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_python.so #4 0x8084ddb in plugin_load () #5 0x8084fc8 in plugin_unload () #6 0x8085059 in plugin_unload () #7 0x8085080 in plugins_init () #8 0x805d599 in _start () #9 0x805d702 in main () #10 0x404c8a42 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) ---------
