I'm having a library problem with WordPerfect 8 for linux on my
debian/testing system. Sometime over the past several months, in the
course of upgrading the system something has broken wordperfect. When I
start it, it segfaults after bringing up the splash screen and the main
navigation thingy in the upper menu box in the upper right-hand corner.
Using gdb I see that the problem is a bad free() called from a routine
in libX11.so.6 which is part of the xlib6 package and lives in
/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib.
egstern1:~> gdb /usr/local/wp8.0/wpbin/xwp
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/wp8.0/wpbin/xwp
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x40185cd4 in free () from /lib/libc.so.5
(gdb) bt
#0 0x40185cd4 in free () from /lib/libc.so.5
#1 0x400f3c4c in _XlcPublicMethods ()
from /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/libX11.so.6
#2 0xffff5921 in ?? ()
Cannot access memory at address 0xe8146a00
I know that the libc5 support is deprecated, but I see that the libc5
itself was updated last week. Should the xlib6 and other X packages
built against libc5 also be updated? What do I need to do it myself?
alt-gcc? Are there any other workarounds?
Eric
