tst-getaddrinfo4 failure with glibc-2.18

[Ángel González]

Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
>> I suspect it's unrelated to getaddrinfo(), but I got some nasty stuff 
>> going on with 2.18 -- many desktop components started segfaulting. 
>> I've now dropped back to 2.17 and things are working again.
>>
>> From the boot with glibc 2.18 this is the sort of thing journalctl 
>> was showing:
>>
>> Aug 15 09:57:37 waverley kernel: Linux version 3.10.7 (root@waverley) 
>> (gcc version 4.8.1 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 15 08:00:09 EDT 2013
>> Aug 15 09:57:37 waverley kernel: Command line: 
>> BOOT_IMAGE=dev001:\EFI\elilo\vmlinuz-3.10.7 root=/dev/sda5 
>> rootfstype=ext4 net.ifnames=0 ro
>> [...]
>>
>> Aug 15 09:58:10 waverley kernel: traps: panel-1-places[397] general 
>> protection ip:f6e5b23b sp:ffa51fe8 error:0 in 
>> libc-2.18.so[f6d34000+1a4000]
>> Aug 15 09:58:10 waverley kernel: traps: xfdesktop[329] general 
>> protection ip:f662223b sp:ff8231a8 error:0 in 
>> libc-2.18.so[f64fb000+1a4000]
>> Aug 15 09:58:10 waverley kernel: traps: tumblerd[351] general 
>> protection ip:f739623b sp:ff9e0988 error:0 in 
>> libc-2.18.so[f726f000+1a4000]
>> Aug 15 09:58:11 waverley kernel: traps: gvfs-mtp-volume[466] general 
>> protection ip:f72b4535 sp:ffa5514c error:0 in 
>> libc-2.18.so[f718d000+1a4000]
>> Aug 15 09:58:11 waverley kernel: traps: gvfsd-trash[486] general 
>> protection ip:f739623b sp:ffce7f9c error:0 in 
>> libc-2.18.so[f726f000+1a4000]
>
> I should have said: this is on a system with 64-bit kernel and 32-bit 
> userspace. I'm seeing something that may be related at
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-from-scratch-13/glibc-2-18-and-acroread-4175473288 
>
A crash on libc is not very informative by itself. I'd attempt to build 
with debug symbols and get the function / line where they happen.