Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1

2004-12-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Andreas Jochens wrote: > However, I had severe problems with 'glibc' upgrades when the '/lib64' > symlink was created by 'glibc' instead of 'base-files'. > Basically, everything stopped working during the upgrade because > the '/lib64' temporarily disappeared and the binarie

Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1

2004-12-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Could you please provide details about the problem of having the > symlinks in glibc? > > Is it that glibc has a versioned Replaces: base-files and dpkg removes > the symlink in base-files before installing the one from glibc, > c

Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1

2004-12-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > Could you please provide details about the problem of having the > > symlinks in glibc? > > > > Is it that glibc has a versioned Replaces: base-files and dpkg removes > > the symlink in

Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1

2004-12-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Andreas Jochens wrote: > >> However, I had severe problems with 'glibc' upgrades when the '/lib64' >> symlink was created by 'glibc' instead of 'base-files'. >> Basically, everything stopped working during the upgrade because >> th

Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1

2004-12-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The problem is we already have it in base-files on every installed > amd64 system. Yes, I'm fully aware of that. See the message I wrote after that. > > In such case I think it would be completely acceptable that the preinst > > simply manipulate

Bug#279722: libc6: application sometimes crashes, valgrind shows error in gconv_db.c

2004-12-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:43:36PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > "Invalid read" is not a memory leak - this says something has been > freed and then used. It looks like the destructors are running in the > wrong order, maybe. > > We'd still need a testcase. A somewhat crappy testcase: $ apt-

Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1

2004-12-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:14:24PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > > > Could you please provide details about the problem of having the > > > symlinks in glibc? > > > > > > Is it that

Bug#284137: locale -a reports misleading values for UTF-8 locales

2004-12-05 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:13:24 +0100, Guillermo S. Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Denis said I have to use UTF-8 so Xlib works, ignoring what locale -a > report, and you say utf8 is the right value, but that will make Xlib > not work. Denis reasoning: > > The name listed in /usr/share/i18n/SUP

Re: mmap broken - glibc or kernel to blame?

2004-12-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:28:19PM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote: > 0001-00012000 r-xp 08:11 458670 a.out > 0002-00024000 rwxp 08:11 458670 a.out > 00024000-08002000 rwxp 00024000 00:00 0 > mmap(0x1, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = > 0x1 >

mmap broken - glibc or kernel to blame?

2004-12-05 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hello, [Please CC the replies to me, as I am not subscribed to this list] While investigating recent FTBFS bug reports [0,1] I have come to a conclusion, that something is wrong with either the dynamic linker ld-linux.so.2, or the way kernel handles certain mmap() calls (at least on sparc64, possib