[crash]

["Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com>]

 [ Cross posted to debian-devel: Please advise.  I don't know a lot
   about this stuff yet. ]

 I was editting a Debian bug report (against perl-5.005-base;
 POSIX.pm is broken) with EDITOR set to `xg', my script that runs
 XEmacs if there's no gnuserv, or gnuclient if there is a gnuserv...
 I clicked the [Done] button, clicked [Yes] on the dialog box, and
 XEmacs crashed, with the following to say... (luckily, I just
 happened to be running it under gdb inside a screen.)  Also attached
 is the Installation file.

 It linked against Xaw3d/libXaw, even though I told it `athena', not
 `athena3d'...  Hmmm.  I wonder if I have the flat athena -dev kit
 installed even?  I'd better check before I send this... It's there.
 Looks like it's part of the base X11 -dev installation...  Hmmm.
 What's wierd, is that in the filesystem, the symlink from
 /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw.so.6 points to Xaw.so.6.1, which is sitting right
 next to it.  In the subdirectory Xaw3d, "libXaw.so.6" (NOT
 "libXaw3d.so.6") is a symlink back out a level to the libXaw3d.so.6.1
 library.  All through the (attached) config.log, things are linked
 with `-lXaw'.

 When XEmacs starts, it says:

/usr/local/src/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2/src/xemacs: Symbol `toggleClassRec' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
/usr/local/src/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2/src/xemacs: Symbol `labelClassRec' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

 I will try running with a LD_PRELOAD and see what happens...

 Hey, in /etc/ld.so.conf, the Xaw3d lib is listed FIRST, at the top of
 the file.  I bet that's what's wrong.  Do yous think so?  Should I
 report this as a bug against the Debian Xaw3d package?  I think
 that's the correct course of action here.  I'm starting to think I
 ought not send this after all...

 Ok, I've verified that if I use a LD_PRELOAD pointing to the flat
 libXaw.so.6.1, the "Symbol" errors don't print on startup.  (And with
 the same LD_PRELOAD, ldd of course shows the flat libXaw) That is
 likely what caused this and several other crashes.  I can see that
 it's not the fault of the XEmacs developers, but an error in the
 system configuration.  I will edit /etc/ld.so.conf, and investigate
 the libXaw3d-dev package.

% ldd /usr/local/src/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2/src/xemacs
	libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4001c000)
	libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x4006f000)
	libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x400b2000)
	libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x400d9000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x400f9000)
	libcompface.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcompface.so.1 (0x40108000)
	libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40114000)
	libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40122000)
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40134000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4017c000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40188000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40227000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40231000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40247000)
	libdb.so.3 => /lib/libdb.so.3 (0x4024b000)
	libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x40286000)
	libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4028c000)
	libesd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0x402cb000)
	libaudiofile.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0x402d3000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x402e6000)
	libopenldap.so.1 => /usr/lib/libopenldap.so.1 (0x40303000)
	liblber-openldap.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblber-openldap.so.1 (0x40318000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4031d000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

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