Bug 4244

Summary: RH 6.0 breaks several apps (acrobat4, wordperfect 8)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: leifj
Component: libcAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 6.0   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 1999-07-29 07:18:16 UTC Type: ---
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Description leifj 1999-07-28 19:09:19 UTC 
Redhat 6.0 has a problem with some applications linked
against glibc-2.0 and/or libc-5. An example of such an
app is acrobat4 (and 3), wordperfect 8. Not all old apps
break; rvplayer (5.0) still works fine! I enclose a gdb
dump which seems to indicate that glibc-2.1 may be the
culprit since the sigsev comes eary in the initialization
process for glibc.

tiger(zsh)[677]gdb
/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread core
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Core was generated by
`/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libAGM.so...
done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libCoolType.so...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libICC.so...
done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/X11R6.3/lib/libXt.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/X11R6.3/lib/libXext.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/X11R6.3/lib/libX11.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/X11R6.3/lib/libSM.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/X11R6.3/lib/libICE.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
#0  0x408461cb in __getopt_clean_environment (env=0x0) at
getopt_init.c:60
getopt_init.c:60: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x408461cb in __getopt_clean_environment (env=0x0) at
getopt_init.c:60
#1  0x407c2b9a in _init (arg=0x0) at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/init-first.c:87
#2  0x4000234b in _dl_boot ()
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-07-28 21:47:59 UTC 
Acrobat 4 is linked against libc5; from the core dump, I'd
say you probably have some glibc (or other) libraries
in /usr/local/lib that it is picking up.
Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 1999-07-29 07:18:59 UTC 
I don't know where your /usr/local/X11R6.3 libraries are coming from
in the trace you gave. I am using both those apps on a 6.0 system