Debian Bug report logs - #90622
xlib6: mixed libc5/libc6 dependencies

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.COM>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: xterm dies due to undefined symbol

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:00:19 +0100

Package: xterm
Version: 4.0.2-11

Hi Branden,

after installing 4.0.2-11 and a reboot, xterm isn't working anymore:

/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7: undefined symbol: XmuCvtGravityToString

Probably other XWindow tools have the same problem.


Regards

Harri

Message #8 received at 90622-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

To: 90622-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#90622: xterm dies due to undefined symbol

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 01:43:21 -0500

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:00:19AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> after installing 4.0.2-11 and a reboot, xterm isn't working anymore:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7: undefined symbol: XmuCvtGravityToString
> 
> Probably other XWindow tools have the same problem.

What versions of the xlibs and libxaw7 packages are installed?

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Message #15 received at 90622-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

To: 90658-submitter@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 90622-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#90658: xterm: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7: undefined symbol: XmuCvtGravityToString

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:08:05 -0500

severity 90658 normal
merge 90622 90658
tags 90622 unreproducible
thanks

I cannot reproduce this problem on my i386 box:

Linux apocalypse 2.4.2 #1 Mon Mar 5 02:45:15 EST 2001 i586 unknown

ii  xterm          4.0.2-11       X terminal emulator
ii  libc6          2.2.2-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libfreetype6   2.0.1.20010317 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libncurses5    5.2.20010318-1 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libxaw7        4.0.2-11       X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibs          4.0.2-11       X Window System client libraries

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:05:58AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 4.0.2-11
> Severity: important
> 
> After last update several aplications, among others xterm refuses to work.
> executing xterm results in the message:
> 
>   xterm: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7: 
>   undefined symbol: XmuCvtGravityToString
> 
> Martin
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux seneca 2.4.2-ac20 #4 Mon Mar 19 22:06:58 EET 2001 i586
> 
> Versions of packages xterm depends on:
> ii  libc6                   2.2.2-1          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libfreetype6            2.0.1.20010317-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> ii  libncurses5             5.2.20010318-1   Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libxaw7                 4.0.2-11         X Athena widget set library       
> ii  xlibs                   4.0.2-11         X Window System client libraries  
> 
> 

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Message #20 received at 90622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu>

To: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

Cc: debian-x@lists.debian.org, 90622@bugs.debian.org, 90658@bugs.debian.org, 90661@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: HELP WANTED: doogiebug strikes latest XFree86 packages

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:48:16 -0800

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu
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> 
> [A doogiebug is defined as either:
> 
>   * a bug that affects only you, and no one else in the world, and
>     therefore doesn't get fixed because the world is indifferent to some
>     random plight that they are convinced you brought upon yourself by
>     doing things like placing trusted data in the hands of the very first
>     version of reiserfs ever; or
> 
>   * a bug that affects everyone else in the world BUT you, which it is your
>     resposibility to fix, but you don't because by some miracle you are
>     personally unscathed by it]
> 
> At any rate, tweaking of Adam Heath aside:
> 
> Two people have reported runtime linking errors with the latest XFree86 4
> packages on i386.  I cannot reproduce these.  I am running my own latest
> versions of the packages, am using bleeding-edge Debian unstable -- updated
> today -- and have rebooted in an effort to reproduce the problem.  No dice.
> My xdm and xterm refuse to break.
> 
> I need:
> 
> 1) people to look at bugs 90622, 90658, and 90661;
> 2) people to offer ideas about what the heck might be going wrong
> 
> Thanks very much for your help.

I saw and fixed something similar-- on looking with ldd, I found that
it ld.so was finding /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 before
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6. I don't know how /etc/ld.so.conf is built
and maintained by dpkg, but for some reason, /usr/X11R6/lib was last
in the search path. Moving it up to before /usr/lib/libc5-compat and
running ldconfig fixed the problem for me, although strictly speaking,
my problem came when I ran nethack (in text mode, no less) and it
couldn't find an Xmu symbol, _XA_UTF8_STRING_. My xterm probably
broke, too, though; I haven't run any real X programs since the
update, since I both updated and ran since via ssh, but in testing,
xterm breaks with the old ld.so.conf, and works with the new.

				- M
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Message #25 received at 90622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>

To: debian-x@lists.debian.org, 90622@bugs.debian.org, 90658@bugs.debian.org, 90661@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: HELP WANTED: doogiebug strikes latest XFree86 packages

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:34:58 +0100

>> Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu> writes:

 > I saw and fixed something similar-- on looking with ldd, I found that
 > it ld.so was finding /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 before
 > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.
 
 That *should* be ok.  The dynamic linker should be able to tell that
 the libraries in /usr/lib/libc5-compat/ are libc5 libraries.

-- 
Marcelo

Message #30 received at 90622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

To: monty@gg.caltech.edu, 90622@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>, debian-x@lists.debian.org, 90658@bugs.debian.org, 90661@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#90622: HELP WANTED: doogiebug strikes latest XFree86 packages

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:50:22 -0500

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:48:16AM -0800, Mark Montague wrote:
> 
> I saw and fixed something similar-- on looking with ldd, I found that
> it ld.so was finding /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 before
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6. I don't know how /etc/ld.so.conf is built
> and maintained by dpkg, but for some reason, /usr/X11R6/lib was last
> in the search path. Moving it up to before /usr/lib/libc5-compat and
> running ldconfig fixed the problem for me, although strictly speaking,
> my problem came when I ran nethack (in text mode, no less) and it
> couldn't find an Xmu symbol, _XA_UTF8_STRING_. My xterm probably
> broke, too, though; I haven't run any real X programs since the
> update, since I both updated and ran since via ssh, but in testing,
> xterm breaks with the old ld.so.conf, and works with the new.
> 

I don't think this is the same problem. I've seen one particular
linktime error with Xmu on sparc, and it contains no such libc5
libraries.

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Message #35 received at 90622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#90622: Acknowledgement (xterm dies due to undefined symbol)

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:22:59 +0100

Ooops, my fault. There were some old libc5 libraries in ld.so.conf.

Regards

Harri

Message #40 received at 90622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu>

To: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>

Cc: debian-x@lists.debian.org, 90622@bugs.debian.org, 90658@bugs.debian.org, 90661@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: HELP WANTED: doogiebug strikes latest XFree86 packages

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:25:11 -0800

"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> writes:

> >> Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
>  > I saw and fixed something similar-- on looking with ldd, I found that
>  > it ld.so was finding /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 before
>  > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.
>  
>  That *should* be ok.  The dynamic linker should be able to tell that
>  the libraries in /usr/lib/libc5-compat/ are libc5 libraries.

I seem to remember seeing some libc5-compat notes in the
apt-listchanges; maybe that's where the problem came in.

Experimentally, it's like this:

% ldd `which xterm`
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x4002d000)
        libXaw.so.7 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7 (0x40065000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x400b9000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x400cb000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4010e000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40117000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4012d000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6
        (0x4013b000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40146000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x401e3000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40224000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
% xterm
xterm: error while loading shared libraries:
        /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7: undefined symbol:
        XmuCvtGravityToString
% cat /etc/ld.so.conf
# for XF86 3.9 testing
#/gagdsk1/monty/X_3.9.15_public_beta/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/InventorDebug
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/local/lib
#/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/libc5-compat
/lib/libc5-compat
/usr/X11R5/lib
/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib

versus:

% ldd `which xterm`
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x4002d000)
        libXaw.so.7 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7 (0x40065000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x400b9000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x400ce000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40118000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40121000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40137000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40145000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40153000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4022e000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4026f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
% xterm
[normal behavior]
% cat /etc/ld.so.conf
# for XF86 3.9 testing
#/gagdsk1/monty/X_3.9.15_public_beta/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/InventorDebug
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/local/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/libc5-compat
/lib/libc5-compat
/usr/X11R5/lib
/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/lib
#/usr/X11R6/lib


I do note that the ldconfig man page says:

  ldconfig  will attempt to deduce the type of ELF libs (ie.
  libc5 or libc6/glibc) based on what  C  libs  if  any  the
  library  was linked against, therefore when making dynamic
  libraries, it is wise to explicitly link against libc (use
  -lc).

and I also see:

% strings /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 | grep libc.so
libc.so.6
% strings /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libz.so.1 | grep libc.so
libc.so.5
% dpkg --search libc5-compat/libXmu
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6.0
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6
% dpkg --status xlib6
Package: xlib6
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: oldlibs
Installed-Size: 1912
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Source: xfree86v3
Version: 3.3.6-37
Replaces: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), elf-x11r6lib, xlib
Depends: xlibs (>> 4.0), libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2)
Conflicts: elf-x11r6lib, xlib
Description: shared libraries required by libc5 X clients
[...]

So it looks like the libc5-compat libs may have been linked to the
wrong libc this time around, maybe.

				- M
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Message #45 received at 90622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>

To: Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu>

Cc: debian-x@lists.debian.org, 90622@bugs.debian.org, 90658@bugs.debian.org, 90661@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: HELP WANTED: doogiebug strikes latest XFree86 packages

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:57:48 +0100

>> Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu> writes:

 > % strings /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 | grep libc.so

 using readelf (or objdump) is more accurate, e.g.:

 $ readelf -d /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2 | grep NEEDED
  0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libc.so.6]
 
 > So it looks like the libc5-compat libs may have been linked to the
 > wrong libc this time around, maybe.

 Yeah, it looks broken.

-- 
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Message #82 received at 90622-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

To: 90622-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#90622: fixed in xfree86v3 3.3.6-38

Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:09:07 -0500

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xfree86v3, which has been installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xlib6_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xlib6_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xserver-p9000_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-p9000_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xserver-svga_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-svga_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xserver-mach8_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-mach8_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xfree86v3_3.3.6-38.diff.gz
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xfree86v3_3.3.6-38.diff.gz
xserver-mach32_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-mach32_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xserver-agx_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-agx_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xserver-common-v3_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-common-v3_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xfree86v3_3.3.6-38.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xfree86v3_3.3.6-38.dsc
xserver-s3_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-s3_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xlib6-altdev_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xlib6-altdev_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xext_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xext_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
xserver-8514_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-8514_3.3.6-38_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 90622@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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pp.
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 05:10:36 +0000
Source: xfree86v3
Binary: xserver-p9000 xserver-mach32 xlib6-altdev xserver-s3 xlib6 xserver-svga xserver-common-v3 xext xserver-mach8 xserver-agx xserver-8514
Architecture: source i386
Version: 3.3.6-38
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high (low for alpha architecture)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Changed-By: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Description: 
 xext       - extensions to XFree86 3.x servers
 xlib6      - shared libraries required by libc5 X clients
 xlib6-altdev - include files and libraries for libc5 X client development
 xserver-8514 - X server for ATI 8514/A-based graphics cards
 xserver-agx - X server for IBM XGA and IIT AGX-based graphics cards
 xserver-common-v3 - files and utilities common to XFree86 3.x X servers
 xserver-mach32 - X server for ATI Mach32-based graphics cards
 xserver-mach8 - X server for ATI Mach8-based graphics cards
 xserver-p9000 - X server for Weitek P9000-based graphics cards
 xserver-s3 - X server for S3 chipset-based graphics cards
 xserver-svga - X server for SVGA graphics cards
Closes: 90622
Changes: 
 xfree86v3 (3.3.6-38) unstable; urgency=HIGH (low for alpha architecture)
 .
   * screwup in build environment created xlib6 packages with mixed libc5/libc6
     dependencies; this causes big problems for some libc6-based X clients;
     rebuilt in sane environment (Closes: #90622)
   * debian/xserver/config:
     - more robust check for returned video card from discover
     - check if video card device and model strings from discover are null
       before writing them to the debconf database
Files: 
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