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Re: locale (and other) problems after upgrade to 2.2.1


From: Andreas Jaeger
Subject: Re: locale (and other) problems after upgrade to 2.2.1
Date: 25 Jan 2001 08:47:23 +0100
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"Rainer Mager" <address@hidden> writes:

> Replying to myself...
> 
> > 1. LOCALE stuff is screwy (that's the technical term). Many things now...
> 
>       I fixed the locale problem. I ran this:
> 
> localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
> 
> 
> This is briefly mentioned in the glibc FAQ (www.gnu.org). The entry
> references a localedata/README file. This did not exist in the tar I got.
> Should the FAQ be updated? Who should I notify?

Please check again:
$ tar tzf /mirror/unix/prep.ai.mit.edu/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.1.tar.gz |grep README
glibc-2.2.1/README
glibc-2.2.1/README.libm
glibc-2.2.1/crypt/README.ufc-crypt
glibc-2.2.1/hesiod/README.hesiod
glibc-2.2.1/localedata/README <-------------------------------------------------
glibc-2.2.1/math/README.libm-test
glibc-2.2.1/resolv/README
glibc-2.2.1/timezone/README


> 
> > 2. The mp3 player freeamp stopped working. I get 'Segmentation fault'....
> 
>       I'm still clueless on the freeamp problem. As far as I can tell, this is
> the only program that broke since I upgraded.

It's failing in chunk_alloc - that means it has a buffer overflow and
overrides internal data of glibc's malloc implementation.

Fix the application,

Andreas
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