From: Chong Yidong Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:23:43 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add "Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade." X-Git-Tag: emacs-22.1~79 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13673952cbc410fe1ce32934749f9d5b8ddeba12;p=emacs.git Add "Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade." --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index efa2bbd2227..50223626e24 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -144,6 +144,21 @@ Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem. } 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.