From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021223 Description of problem: With glibc-2.3.1-6 gnumeirc runs fine. I tried several glibc-2.3.1 up till glibc-2.3.1-32 but with each of them gnumeirc does start but does not show a window. It just seems to hang. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install glibc-2.3.1-32 2.reboot, startx 3.start gnumeric (from a termianl window) Actual Results: gnumeirc starts but no gnumeirc-window appears Expected Results: a new gnumeric window should pop up. Additional info: I run straces on gnumeirc starts using glibc-2.3.1-6 and glibc-2.3.1-32 using both kernel-2.4.19-0.pp.15 and kernel-2.4.20-2.2. I'll attached the results...
Created attachment 89252 [details] strace for which gnumeric runs fine
Created attachment 89253 [details] strace where gnumeirc fails
Created attachment 89254 [details] strace where gnumeric runs fine on latest redhat kernel
Created attachment 89255 [details] strace where gnumeric fails on latest redhat kernel
Looks like some mysterious libc/python thing to me.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81374 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.