Control: tags -1 unreproducible Control: severity -1 important On 2016-09-14 J Phelps <phel...@nuvox.net> wrote: >>Can you provide a (simple) way to reproduce the issue?
> Reproduction was simple on my machine: Just try to run Chromium 53.0.2785.92, > which depends on libgnutls30. It crashed immediately. Works for me. :-( > I had just upgraded from a much older version of Chromium (in the 30s IIRC) > using Aptitude. > Running it under GDB showed that the segfault happened in Nettle. >> Your diagnosis cannot be completely correct. e.g. libgnutls30 >> 3.5.4-2 on i386 (which you reported the issue against) was built against >> nettle-dev i386 3.2-1 which continues to be the latest version of nettle >> available in Debian. So you cannot experience a breakage in Debian >> caused by the Debian-installed nettle version being newer and having a >> different ABI than the version GnuTLS was built against. > I think that the binary in the .deb package was compiled from a different > Nettle source than the one that you find in the corresponding .dsc package. I am pretty sure that is not true. For that to happen some Debian developer would have needed to make a manual build and upload. > Otherwise, compiling the .dsc package should have given me a binary > that was compatible with the one that was already installed on my > system. > Instead, I had unresolved symbols (I don't remember which ones), Can you reproduce this and show the exact error message? > and I had > to go to Nettle's Git repository (https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle) > to find source code that could produce a linkable library. The symbols > that were unresolved were only found in the "ecc-support" branch of that > repo. Compiling from the trunk led to the same symbols being unresolved. [...] I strongly suspect a local issue, e.g. locally built old version of gnutls or nettle in /usr/local. "ldd /usr/lib/chromium/chromium" might point in the right direction. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'