Skype core dumps as normal user

[Gary Stanley]

At 10:41 PM 3/17/2008, Beech Rintoul wrote:
>On Monday 17 March 2008, Gary Stanley said:
> > At 02:53 PM 3/17/2008, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > >On Monday 17 March 2008, Beech Rintoul said:
> > > > On Monday 17 March 2008, Alexander Leidinger said:
> > > > > Quoting Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsd.org> (from Sun, 16 Mar
> > > > > 2008
> > > > >
> > > > > 23:11:21 -0800):
> > > > > > I've run into a problem starting skype as a normal user:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > $ skype --resources=/usr/local/share/skype
> > > > > > *** glibc detected *** skype: double free or corruption
> > > > > > (!prev): 0x092ad7f0 ***
> > > > >
> > > > > I remember some error reports like this (with other
> > > > > programs). The outcome was either that we are not able to
> > > > > find the cause, or that the glibc version used is broken (and
> > > > > a newer one fixes the problem). I don't remember which of
> > > > > those it was. Which linux base are you using? If it is fc4,
> > > > > please try with a more recent one. If it is not fc4, please
> > > > > try with fc4.
> > > > >
> > > > > If the problems occurs with both, it would be interesting to
> > > > > know what is happening (this would involve building skype,
> > > > > fontconfig and/or glibc with debug symbols).
> > > > >
> > > > > Bye,
> > > > > Alexander.
> > >
> > >I was going to say. I'm running fc6 with 2.6.16. I'll ping the
> > > Skype devs and see if they'll roll me a copy with debugging
> > > turned on.
> >
> > Can you try a newer glibc version with 2.6.16? You can install it
> > like this;
> >
> > cd /compat/linux && fetch
> > 
> <ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/development/x86_64/os/Packages/glib>c-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm">ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/development/x86_
> >64/os/Packages/glibc-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm" Then you do a simple
> > "rpm2cpio glibc-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm | cpio -idvu"
>
>Thank you, that fixed the problem :-)
>
>Beech

As I've told roman in private mails, I think most of the problems 
with "glibc detected *** double free or corruption" messages
are either a glibc bug that FreeBSD is triggering, or a FreeBSD bug 
that glibc is triggering. It's rather hard to say, however, I'm still 
testing a bunch of glibc rpms to see which ones are 'broken'

-G