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El dom, 09-10-2011 a las 10:48 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: |
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> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders has a long history of segfaults. |
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> Not to blame anybody here, but still segfaults there can happen quite easily. |
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> A nice example is: |
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> export __GL_NO_DSO_FINALIZER=1 |
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> $ gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders |
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> When nvidia.ko is in use. |
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> The __GL_NO_DSO_FINALIZER is a hack that made buggy nvidia-drivers (or |
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> buggy gl threads usage?) work. |
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> The problem with our ebuilds is that everybody did something like this |
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> (in pkg_postinst): |
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> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > "${ROOT}usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache" |
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> 1) exit status is not even considered |
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> 2) output redirection truncates the destination file as soon as the |
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> executable is spawned |
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> This is very bad, because in case of segfaults, loaders.cache is |
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> totalled, resulting in gtk+ apps dying miserably. |
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> Please don't do that, never ever. We don't live in a perfect world. |
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> x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf got fixed already. |
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> Others affected: |
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> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs |
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> gnome-base/librsvg |
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> media-libs/libwmf |
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> others? |
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I would really appreciate if you could fix this three yourself :-) |
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Thanks a lot |
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