changeset 77765:294f1fe2765d

Add "Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade."
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Mon, 21 May 2007 15:23:43 +0000
parents fd8a80f517da
children 811d56edd3fc
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon May 21 09:40:15 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon May 21 15:23:43 2007 +0000
@@ -144,6 +144,21 @@
 	 }
 	 return ret;
 
+** Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade.
+
+This is caused by a binary incompatible change to the malloc
+implementation in glibc 2.5.90-22.  As a result, Emacs binaries built
+using prior versions of glibc crash when run under 2.5.90-22.
+
+This problem was first seen in pre-release version of Fedora 7, and
+may be fixed in the final Fedora 7 release.  To stop the crash from
+happening, first try upgrading to the newest version of glibc; if this
+does not work, rebuild Emacs with the same version of glibc that you
+will run it under.  For details, see
+
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344
+
+
 * Crash bugs
 
 ** Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.