Todays f16 updates broken my KDE

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 17:38 +0100, Martin Airs wrote:
> On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 17:19:12 Martin Airs wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 11:15:50 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Probably a variant of:
> > > 733462 - glibc-2.14.90-6 causes kdeinit4 to segfault
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733462
> > > 
> > > fixed in -7 and newer.
> > > 
> > > -- rex
> > 
> > Oh lol, however -7 and newer brakes NVIDIA :)
> > 
> > hmm, ok thanks Rex
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> sorry just a quickie, if glibc had a patch in -5 which stopped the segfault in 
> glx apps, did that then get passed on up to -6 -7 and so on?
> 
> if so then why doesn't the latest glibc work?
> 
> and how come the an earlier nividia driver works with xorg 1.11.1-1, but the 
> latest doesn't.
> 
> sorry I don't expect you to have all the answer's, but what do you recommend I 
> do, I now have to wait for glibc, qt, kdelibs, and nvidia to catch up now.
> 
> or does a new glibc fix all these issues, bar the nvidia one??

They're two different bugs. -5 was completely broken - it caused just
about everything in the world to crash, no matter what your graphics
card is - and also it introduced a change which stopped NVIDIA working.

Somewhere around -8 or so the complete breakage was fixed, but the
change which prevents the NVIDIA driver working right has never been
touched. It's been in every build of glibc since.

If you want a working glibc+NVIDIA, you either have to run 2.14.90-4, or
use the latest build with the patch from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737223 , which reverts the
specific change in glibc that stopped NVIDIA working.
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