From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RGEIu-0002fr-Dh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:22:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1D1D21C0D4; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABC121C0CF for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.35] (40.red-80-29-60.adsl.static.ccgg.telefonica.net [80.29.60.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pacho) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0D6FD1B400E for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders usage in tree From: Pacho Ramos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-raQicx+Jsp1MTfodI19b" Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:21:32 +0200 Message-ID: <1318962092.21882.1.camel@belkin4> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4d0dc2e46fcf9e52270dd41538ca3e33 --=-raQicx+Jsp1MTfodI19b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El dom, 09-10-2011 a las 10:48 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribi=C3=B3: > gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders has a long history of segfaults. > Not to blame anybody here, but still segfaults there can happen quite eas= ily. >=20 > A nice example is: > export __GL_NO_DSO_FINALIZER=3D1 > $ gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > When nvidia.ko is in use. >=20 > The __GL_NO_DSO_FINALIZER is a hack that made buggy nvidia-drivers (or > buggy gl threads usage?) work. > The problem with our ebuilds is that everybody did something like this > (in pkg_postinst): >=20 > gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > "${ROOT}usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.= cache" >=20 > 1) exit status is not even considered > 2) output redirection truncates the destination file as soon as the > executable is spawned >=20 > This is very bad, because in case of segfaults, loaders.cache is > totalled, resulting in gtk+ apps dying miserably. >=20 > Please don't do that, never ever. We don't live in a perfect world. >=20 > x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf got fixed already. >=20 > Others affected: > app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs > gnome-base/librsvg > media-libs/libwmf > others? >=20 I would really appreciate if you could fix this three yourself :-) Thanks a lot --=-raQicx+Jsp1MTfodI19b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6dw6wACgkQCaWpQKGI+9TKOQCcDBOLnvRMO+zKIuFpHh4xF8ne bgYAni7sFU+5TvowVVwMMS9PzMRAdK2e =MPhZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-raQicx+Jsp1MTfodI19b--