[834] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Buggy 4.0 && unhappy user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ridgway)
Fri Oct 25 00:27:12 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:24:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Ridgway <ridgway@routh.UCSD.EDU>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Cc: honglu@rt66.com
In-Reply-To: <199610250159.VAA14491@redhat.com>
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I can help on one of these.
>First, passwd is not working for non-root users, I tried to change
>passwd group to root.root and setuid root, no luck.
>(/usr/bin/passwd root root rswr-xr-x )
Me too. I don't know the fix. When I start messing with pam.conf, I
usually end up with a machine I can't log into and lose hours from my
life. Currently, I'm learning to like the password I have.
I can't ftp into my machine either, only out. Sort of like Windows 95.
>third , netscape 3.0 gold is crashy with java, I know it is because libc
>is too new.
The specific problem is the new malloc/free, which is more sensitive to
programs which free things they didn't malloc. The authors of libc
realized that this was an incompatible change, and made it a compile time
option. Red Hat chose to compile with the strict new malloc as opposed to
the relaxed old malloc. Their choice, but it means Java doesn't work on
Red Hat 4.0. I uploaded a libc rpm with the other choice to Incoming some
time ago (before 4.0 was released), with a name something like
libc-gnumalloc. Personally, I was hoping they would ship my version :-) I
haven't tested it with Navigator Gold, but it worked great for serious
Java under Navigator 3.0. It is the identical libc version, same code,
the only difference is the malloc, so using libc-gnumalloc is a much
better solution than scripts which hack LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get some
ancient libc just to change the malloc.
The exact URLs are:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/Incoming/libc-gnumalloc-5.3.12-5.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/Incoming/libc-gnumalloc-5.3.12-5.src.rpm
> Please I would like to know whether bugginess
> is only for me or ther are others unlucky guys like me?
It's not just you. People who think the beta worked fine for everybody
weren't subscribed to rembrandt-list.
doug.
dridgway@ucsd.edu
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