Hi Steve, I couldn't wait... <heh> I got into the problem machine and removed the FLAC fills to a dummy dir and xmms is back on-line... As for glibc or any of the primary libs... I did the same thing you mentioned many years ago too... I haven't had this much fun since the days of fooling with the IBM 360... Thanks again! vince On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:22, Stephen Cameron wrote: > I ran into a similar problem once, the symptom appeared to > incriminate glibc at first blush, but turned out to be flac > library. > > here's what I recorded about it: > > Jun 13, 2006 Figured out why xmms was dying with glibc detecting > "double free or corruption:" It's because of a bug in the flac lib. > Not wanting to waste time getting a new flac (I haven't at the moment > got a need for FLAC) I straced xmms and found where it was loading > the lib (from /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.*) moved those files > out of there and now xmms runs again. > > Maybe you're seeing something similar, since it seems unlikely > that some package would be touching glibc, since so much depends > on it, and upgrading glibc is somewhat tricky (well, I remember > a bad experience once mv'ing libc.so on a Sun back in 1994 or so, > and suddenly every command that needs libc.so fails to run, LOL, > so I assume it is still tricky.) > > -- steve > > --- Vince Werber <ka1iic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I had this weird experience a week ago,,, I was compiling a sound > > application and it over wrote a part of my libc in some way and caused my > > xmms that I used to play old radio shows on my second audio card to > > fail... I didn't notice it until I tried to use xmms the other day... > > now I got to figure out which one did the deed... that should be great > > fun <heh> > > > > awww well... all in a days work <heh> > > > > vince > > > > On Thursday 14 December 2006 01:04, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Vince Werber wrote: > > > > I keep a log of what libs I install but for the life of me... I can't > > > > remember what I do have without the log... so... I guess I do it > > > > too! <heh> > > > > > > Quite honstly, i think almost nobody should be installing libraries > > > from source. Rather, I think people should install the pre-packaged > > > library from their distribution. > > > > > > The only exception to the above, is developers actually working on > > > the library and the hopefully rare cases where a developer needs to > > > test a bleedign edge version of a library that the distribution > > > has not yet packaged. > > > > > > As a library author myself, the only two libraries on my system that > > > were installed from source are libsndfile and libsamplerate. > > > > > > Erik > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com
