[15743] in Athena Bugs
Re: crashes under Netscape 3 on Linux [REPOST]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sat Jan 10 21:47:46 1998
To: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 10 Jan 1998 21:47:39 -0500
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I hate to repeat myself, but my report seems to have fallen through
the cracks...
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
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Subject: Re: crashes under Netscape 3 on Linux
To: Barry Jaspan <bjaspan@intermute.com>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 19 Dec 1997 10:34:15 -0500
Barry Jaspan <bjaspan@intermute.com> writes:
> Please read http://---interMute---/manual/trouble.htm#linux and let me know
> if that does not solve your problem.
That wasn't quite the solution, but it was close enough for me to
figure it out...it turns out that there's a subtle bug in the netscape
script in the infoagents locker: it doesn't account for the fact that
LD_ELF_PRELOAD overrides LD_PRELOAD. (It also fails to take advantage
of the fact that one can specify multiple preloaded libraries with
ELF.) The following patch (which I've tested) addresses both of these
issues:
--- /mit/infoagents/bin/netscape Mon Sep 8 16:31:28 1997
+++ /tmp/netscape Fri Dec 19 10:30:57 1997
@@ -48,8 +48,14 @@
case "${uname}" in
Linux)
# Java frees freed pointers - gnu malloc package handles this
- LD_PRELOAD=${archtop}lib/gnumalloc.so
- export LD_PRELOAD
+ if [ -n ${LD_ELF_PRELOAD+x} ]; then
+ LD_ELF_PRELOAD="${archtop}lib/gnumalloc.so:$LD_ELF_PRELOAD"
+ elif [ -n ${LD_PRELOAD+x} ]; then
+ LD_ELF_PRELOAD="${archtop}lib/gnumalloc.so:$LD_PRELOAD"
+ else
+ LD_ELF_PRELOAD="${archtop}lib/gnumalloc.so"
+ fi
+ export LD_ELF_PRELOAD
XNLSPATH=/mit/infoagents/share/Netscape/nls.x11r5; export XNLSPATH
attach -h -n -q $common_lockers
;;
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
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