Package: binutils Version: 2.20.1-16 Severity: critical As explained in this post (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2011/03/msg00017.html), gnome-settings-daemon is broken on IA-64 (Itanium) since release 2.24.1-1 dated 2008-12-30, not because of a source code change, but because of a change in the flags passed to ld by the debian/rules build script of the gnome-settings-daemon source package.
Simply removing -Wl,-z,defs from the LDFLAGS of the debian/rules script produces a working gnome-settings-daemon binary. This has been checked with current gnome-settings-daemon-2.30.2-2 and gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.1-1 (first broken release). Cross-testing by adding this flag to gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.2.1-2 (last working release) produces a broken binary, proving that -z defs flag is the culprit. What's unclear to me: - is this issue limited to gnome-settings-daemon or does it reveal something more serious and other packages built with -z defs flag are affected too (hence this bug report)? - if other packages are affected too, is this issue specific to IA-64 or not? >From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities, I've set bug severity to critical, as ld breaks an unrelated software (gnome-settings-daemon in the present case). By the way, with currently broken gnome-settings-daemon-2.30.2-2 and gdm3 window manager, CPU power is completely eaten by running instances of gnome-settings-daemon. Even worse, each time a user logs in/off, additional gnome-settings-daemon processes are forked, leading to a completely unusable system. And unfortunately, a standard user doesn't have sufficient permissions to kill the CPU-eating gnome-settings-daemon processes (although this was possible with gdm; but gdm will be dropped in next Debian Wheezy). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: ia64 Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-mckinley (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages binutils depends on: ii libc6.1 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime binutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages binutils suggests: pn binutils-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
