Mercurial > emacs
changeset 77765:294f1fe2765d
Add "Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade."
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| 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.