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Possible problem with gnumalloc.so in old machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Sat Mar 29 11:58:47 1997
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:58:32 EST
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
I've seen two people have the following problem (see end) when they try
to start up netscape. I assume the problem is related to gnumalloc.so
since nm of it gives:
00002894 A __bss_start
U __default_morecore_init
I suspect the problem will manifest itself on any Slackware 3.0 machine.
libc 5.0.9 does not have morecore_init whereas 5.2.18 does:
25 % nm /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 | grep morecore
00032884 T __default_morecore
000328a8 T __default_morecore_init
00079064 D __morecore
000316bc t morecore
26 % nm /lib/libc.so.5.0.9 | grep morecore
00031d60 T __default_morecore
0007b3d4 D __morecore
00030b70 t morecore
Do people running old systems just lose?
> basename: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
> send_message: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
> /mit/gnu/arch/i386_linux1/bin/gdu: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
> awk: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
>
> **** Netscape is eating K of your quota! ****
> To correct, this situation, quit Netscape, and then run
> add infoagents
> netscape-fix
> rm -rf ~/.netscape/cache
> grep: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
> xset: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
> sh: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
> /mit/infoagents/arch/i386_linux1/bin/Mozilla301: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
> rm: can't resolve symbol '__default_morecore_init'
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