Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114418
setiathome binary fails to start with reloc failure
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:00 EST
Description of problem: Trying to start the 3.03 setiathome app results in the following message: setiathome: ../sysdeps/ia64/dl-machine.h:562: elf_machine_rela: Assertion `!"unexpected dynamic reloc type"' failed. Aborted and the app doesn't run. I've googled around a bit and found similar messages from apps on other architectures, but none for ia64. The consensus seemed to be that this was a linker or c library problem. Jesse Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download setiathome 3.03 tarball for ia64 2. untar it 3. run it on an ia64 box under RHEL 3.0 Actual Results: setiathome: ../sysdeps/ia64/dl-machine.h:562: elf_machine_rela: Assertion `!"unexpected dynamic reloc type"' failed. Aborted
Is setiathome a statically linked program, right? There is no binary compatibility for statically linked programs which do dlopen/NSS/iconv (i.e. are not self-contained) and never has been in Linux. Applications should be linked dynamically, if for some reason this is not possible, they should be relinked always with glibc against which it will be run. glibc license mandates that object files for relinking must be available with statically linked programs FYI.
Ah-ha! Thanks, I knew I was missing something basic. Know the glibc code I was reading makes sense... Jesse
Closing.