Description of problem: Gnome applications stoped working today for no apparent reason. Only updated packages where iptable (nothing gnome-related). After I run "prelink -u -a" the problem vanished. (Sadly re-prelinking didn't make the problem re-appear so I can't reproduce it now). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): prelink 0.3.2-11 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 0. unkown, but probably involves prelink 1. try to run any gnome-application (gnome-about for example) Actual results: Gnome about dialog pops up Expected results: no user-visible action is taken, shell returns to prompt without any message after some time (varies, some programs return immediatly, some take 2-3 secconds to return) Additional info: Additional Info (+ a stack trace) can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156627
I guess you haven't saved the binary and all dependent libraries before unprelinking, right? In that case there is probably nothing that can be done about this bugreport. It might be a bug in one of the libraries that only shows up in certain memory layouts, etc. But without a reproducer we are out of luck.
Created attachment 106564 [details] prelink log from the time before the problem occured Thanks for the fast response. No, I didn't think of that, I'll remember it if I stumble into that kind of problem again. I just wanted to ask if logging all prelink invocations would help when I realized there's a prelink.log in /var/log from today 10:18 (that's about the time the problems started. I'm not an expert with prelinking, but does prelink log enough information to reproduce the setup? Then the log could help ... I'm attaching it in case it helps. If it doesn't help ... well, then I'll reopen the bug in case i'm hit by it again.
No, it is impossible to reproduce it from that info. prelink randomizes, so unless you tell it a specific random seed you will never be able to recreate the exact same state. Closing as WONTFIX, since without reproducing it there is nothing further that can be done.