On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Jaeger wrote: >> Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it >> left me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation, >> because basically all Gnome applications stopped working. After a bit >> over 2 hours worth of investigation, I've found out how to solve the >> issue; since I first looked here and didn't find anything gnome >> related, I'm sending this to the list for the casual other victim. >> >> Symptom: Gnome apps just hang, without outputting anything to >> stdout/stderr (or .xsession-errors if started through the menu). >> >> Problem: the apps segfault inside libxml2, and thereafter enter a >> deadlocked state in a mutex (or in a select call); the former is >> apparently a bug in libxml2, the latter seems to be the Gnome >> functionality to pop up a windows which seems to have an issue on it's >> own (so it's really two bugs happening here, obscuring the >> investigation a bit.) >> >> Solution: install libxml2 from unstable; this is actually a downgrade >> (from libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny to 2.6.32.dfsg-2). I.e. "apt-get >> install -t unstable libxml2/unstable", but you need to have the >> unstable sources in apt.sources and use apt pinning (I won't explain >> that here, check other sources). > > Hi Christian, thanks for the warning and solution.
I second the thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't yet done my daily update, so I put libxml2 and libxml2-utils on hold until I can be sure the new bug is fixed. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
