On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:19:15AM -0500, mel kravitz wrote:
> rebuilt release 4.99.39 today, jemalloc.c 1.15, startkde dumps the 
> following core files on startup and gdb on alpha does not give much data-
> casey229: {13} cd core_dumps
> casey229: {14} ls -l *
> -rw-------  1 mel  users  3130096 Dec  4 06:24 artsshell.core
> -rw-------  1 mel  users  1516768 Dec  4 06:23 dcop.core
> -rw-------  1 mel  users  1756816 Dec  4 06:23 kde-config.core
> -rw-------  1 mel  users  2493752 Dec  4 06:23 kdeinit.core
> -rw-------  1 mel  users  2179232 Dec  4 06:23 ksmserver.core
> -rw-------  1 mel  users  2469464 Dec  4 06:23 ksplash.core
> casey229: {15} gdb -core ksmserver.core
> GNU gdb 6.5
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> This GDB was configured as "alpha--netbsd".
> Core was generated by `ksmserver'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> moving userland back to 4.99.33 allows kde to start. Any suggestions 
> welcome-
> mel

Are you sure the synlinks under /usr/lib and /lib are correct? There is a problem
with library load order in the dynamic linker. jemalloc 1.15 works around it for
x86; I'm working on a real solution. Hopefully it's the cause of this problem.

Thanks,
Andrew