Subject: Re: xemacs dumps to core in -current
To: Thorsten Frueauf <s_frueau@ira.uka.de>
From: Oleg Polyanski <luke@eed.miee.ru>
List: current-users
Date: 02/22/1999 14:48:37
> > > 	xemacs dumps to core since 20 feb in -current. ktrace shows the
> > > following:
> > 
> > Is this on i386?  If so, it's been since libc version got bumped up to 
> > 12.38.
> 
> It just happened to me too. I was upgrading from 8.2. sources to 19.2.
> sources. I saved my libc.so.12.38 from the 8.2. build.
> 
> xemacs dumps core with libc build with 19.2. sources, but still works
> with libc.so.12.28 build with 8.2. sources.
> 
> I am on i386 too. So its not the version bump, but something
> between 8.2. and 19.2. broke it.
> 
> Whish I would know what it is though :(
> 

	i guess something happened with sigprocmask(2) in libc. the simple
solution was for me to delete libc.so.12.38 and rerun ldconfig. i get many
warnings from dynamic loader but xemacs works so life continues.