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Hi! |
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Finally after 2 weeks of debugging, rebuilding glibc, libdb, |
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evolution about 10 times each and breaking my system two times I've |
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found the problem why evolution >= 0.11 has been segfaulting on Gentoo |
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all the time. |
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The problem lies in nss-db and the fact that we default to it. |
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The problem is that Evolution builds against libdb3 3.1.17 statically. |
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What then happends is: |
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1) start wombat (part of evo) |
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2) calls getpwuid () |
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3) glibc looks in /etc/nsswitch.conf |
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4) it sees that it should use libnss_db which links to libdb-3.2.so |
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5) we now have a binary running with libdb 3.1.17 statically linked |
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and libdb-3.2.so dyn. running. |
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6) what happends then is (I think) that it confuses the symbols from |
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libdb 3.1.17 with those from libdb 3.2.3 and segfaults. |
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So, could we please remove nss-db from 'emerge system' and change the |
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nsswitch.conf to something more sane, I've spook to Daniel about this |
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and he agrees that we should indeed do this. |
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This is the nsswitch.conf from Debian: |
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passwd: compat |
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group: compat |
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shadow: compat |
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hosts: files dns |
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networks: files |
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protocols: db files |
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services: db files |
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ethers: db files |
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rpc: db files |
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netgroup: nis |
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Regards, |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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