On Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0100 Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> My shiny new LFS system is heading for /dev/null. That's ok, it > was only a test of current packages, but I must admit I'd hoped to > keep it for a week or two. > > The reason is that although I've built everything except for some > gnome packages, I didn't test sound until last night. Totally > broken. gvolwheel reported it couldn't connect open the mixer, > although alsamixer runs ok. aplay segfaults, but the segfault is in > ld-2.15.so. > > Google found that *some* people have been hitting this since > glibc-2.14. It also pointed me to a patch at cross-lfs, > http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/eglibc-2.15-fixes-1.patch > which is from the libc-alpha list last year. It applies (eglibc > isn't _that+ different :), but I'm reluctant to try upgrading the > running glibc - doing in-place toolchain updates is the beginning > of a slippery slope! > > I'll try a fresh test build, and this time test 'aplay' in chroot. > So, for the moment this is just a heads-up that I'm looking at this. > > Still puzzled about what suddenly broke this for me, LFS-7.1 on > this machine was fine but the problem first surfaced (for some > people) last summer. Good news everyone! The patch has been applied upstream http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0479b305c5b7c8e3fa8e3002982cf8cac02b842e Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
