current 11-11-11 glibc problem?
 

Hi

The latest current update (11-11-11) had a new glibc-2.14.1. After that alien's libreoffice stopped working here: it crashed when clicked something. Downgrading to glibc-2.13 fixed it.

(Be warned that downgrading glibc is not trivial: after upgradepkg you need to remove the leftover 2.14.1 shared libraries from /lib64 or /lib and run ldconfig.)

Working fine here.....
i used the latest 3.4.4 package from Eric

OK, I have the same libreoffice package, so it could be something specific to my system then. This is a 64-bit installation and the kernel is 3.1.1.

Since the glibc upgrade, MPlayer is crashing with every video in my system. Rebuilding the latest SVN version didn't fix the problem. This is a pure 64-bit system running the official kernel-generic package.

The experienced problem is the same one described here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615916

Edit: more info, seems related to the ALSA libraries. See the second thread here:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/...read.html#1929

Indeed, if run with "-ao oss", MPlayer does not crash.

This fixed my libreoffice crashing:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patc...-fixes-1.patch

I've been using mplayer2 for some time now and i dont have this problem. It works fine with the new glibc.

No problems with firefox 8.0 so far either.

I have this problem as well. I thought it was because i was upgrading to the latest ffmpeg, but unfortunately, it wasn't the problem.

Alien Bob's calibre also crashes with a segmentation fault. Have now downgraded back to glibc 2.13.

Side Effects Houdini 11.1 also crashes on startup with glibc 2.14.1. Reverting to 2.13 restores it.

Update: Houdini no longer segfaults on startup with 2.14.1 with the LFS-patch applied.

Firefox is fine here, Calibre 0.8.26 too <- Not Eric's package.

mplayer with -ao alsa crashes here on ao2_init. Using -ao $SOMETHING-ELSE is fine.

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/.../msg00006.html <-- For info on the memory leak in dlopen plus patches
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12871 <-- Bug report against Libre Office

The link Petri Kaukasoina posted, is similar to the patches above. Applying the patch from LFS also fixes my mplayer ao2_init problem.

I can confirm this on my own 32bit system with crash as disturbed1 describes above.

I just upgraded glibc to 2.14.1, using my own multilib package to which I have applied the LFS patch which an earlier post referred to: (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patc...-fixes-1.patch). The multilib updates are waiting at http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/current/

So far (running latest slackware64-current multilib) I can run the various LibreOffice programs, mplayer, firefox, calibre without any issues. I am typing this text in Firefox while mplayer displays a H.264 video in a background window.

Eric

Thanks for applying this to the multilib package, much appreciated!

Is it possible to apply the LFS patch to the standard glibc.SlackBuild-script?

Mats

If you replace the Slackware version of glibc.SlackBuild with this updated glibc.SlackBuild: http://pastebin.com/aErRGCTh and also download the LFS patch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patc...-fixes-1.patch) into the glibc source directory, then you can run
and sometime later, you will have your new glibc packages in a directory "/glibc-SOMELARGESTRING/".

Eric