On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Hamish Moffatt said: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:38:51PM +0200, Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s > > wrote: > > > I haven't upgraded either since a few days before Etch was released (by > > > fear of breaking something ;-)). > > > > Hmm. You have libc6 2.5-1, while I have 2.3.x. I upgraded it and now > > pdftops fails. > > > > The libc6 upgrade also failed ruining locales here. Argh. > > That's a known problem - it's waiting on a buildd upload. But here I > have libc6 2.5-1 and locales 2.5-1 installed - just rolling back from -2 > for locales was enough to get that working again.
Something in libc6/locales caused unmaintained belocs-locales-* to be installed here and now I seem to be pretty screwed. Hmm. OK got locales 2.5-1 from snapshot.debian.net and now up and running. > So, hmm. What has changed in the new libc that breaks pdftops, I > wonder? I'll try to get you a good stacktrace (as a wishlist item, can > you consider shipping a -dbg package when the new version is ready?). It appears to fail in wmemset, but the stack trace appears to be crap soon after that. I don't know what called wmemset. Running the unstripped binary is not helping; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gdb -args tmp/xpdf-3.01/xpdf/pdftops FormularVZRneu1.pdf GNU gdb 6.6-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /home/hamish/tmp/xpdf-3.01/xpdf/pdftops FormularVZRneu1.pdf Failed to read a valid object file image from memory. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7de1763 in wmemset () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7de1763 in wmemset () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0xb7db0342 in __printf_fp () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00000030 in ?? () Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
