Subject: Re: problems with new libc
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/22/2007 10:02:27
Antti Kantee wrote:
> I upgraded my userland and practically nothing worked anymore.  Luckily I
> had a previous version of libc still hanging around and reverting it
> made the system work better again.
> 
> Appears the crash is in jemalloc, e.g.:
> Core was generated by `find'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0xbbb4556a in _malloc_prefork () from /objs/obj/destdir.i386/lib/libc.so.12
> 
> Anyone got a clue as to what is going on?  I tried installing the 20071020
> snapshot on my barely limping system with a GENERIC to match but it had
> exactly the same effect.

Which older libc did you use?  I just copied 12.147 from the live CD and
it's even worse.

I don't see any commits to libc since late September and I'm almost sure
I updated without problems after that.  But not completely sure.