Re: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem

[Chong Yidong]

Chip Coldwell <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> 
>> Therefore, I propose adding the following entry to the Emacs PROBLEMS
>> file.
>> 
>> 
>> ** Emacs crashes on startup on Fedora Core 7.
>
> We very genuinely hope to get this fixed in glibc before Fedora 7
> (note that they are dropping the "Core") ships, so hopefully the
> PROBLEMS entry will not be necessary.

I think there is no harm documenting this, in case anyone happens to
use the affected versions of glibc.  I'v added the following text to
PROBLEMS.


** 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 versions 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