On Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0100 Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> My shiny new LFS system is heading for /dev/null. That's ok, it > was only a test of current packages, but I must admit I'd hoped to > keep it for a week or two. > > The reason is that although I've built everything except for some > gnome packages, I didn't test sound until last night. Totally > broken. gvolwheel reported it couldn't connect open the mixer, > although alsamixer runs ok. aplay segfaults, but the segfault is in > ld-2.15.so. > > Google found that *some* people have been hitting this since > glibc-2.14. It also pointed me to a patch at cross-lfs, > http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/eglibc-2.15-fixes-1.patch > which is from the libc-alpha list last year. It applies (eglibc > isn't _that+ different :), but I'm reluctant to try upgrading the > running glibc - doing in-place toolchain updates is the beginning > of a slippery slope! If it's built from the same tarball you should be fine to install a new glibc over the old one. Try the attached patch. > I'll try a fresh test build, and this time test 'aplay' in chroot. > So, for the moment this is just a heads-up that I'm looking at this. > > Still puzzled about what suddenly broke this for me, LFS-7.1 on > this machine was fine but the problem first surfaced (for some > people) last summer. We used to apply the glibc-2.14.1-fixes-1.patch which contained the fix. Some history: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2011-September/065023.html
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