Package: valgrind
Version: 1:3.7.0-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

When I try to run Valgrind it refuses to run, and exits with an error
message about being unable to redirect a function. The following shows how
to reproduce it:

> cat foo.c
int main()
{
}
> gcc foo.c -o foo
> valgrind ./foo
==11407== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==11407== Copyright (C) 2002-2011, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==11407== Using Valgrind-3.7.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==11407== Command: ./foo
==11407==

valgrind:  Fatal error at startup: a function redirection
valgrind:  which is mandatory for this platform-tool combination
valgrind:  cannot be set up.  Details of the redirection are:
valgrind:
valgrind:  A must-be-redirected function
valgrind:  whose name matches the pattern:      strlen
valgrind:  in an object with soname matching:   ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
valgrind:  was not found whilst processing
valgrind:  symbols from the object with soname: ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
valgrind:
valgrind:  Possible fixes: (1, short term): install glibc's debuginfo
valgrind:  package on this machine.  (2, longer term): ask the packagers
valgrind:  for your Linux distribution to please in future ship a non-
valgrind:  stripped ld.so (or whatever the dynamic linker .so is called)
valgrind:  that exports the above-named function using the standard
valgrind:  calling conventions for this platform.  The package you need
valgrind:  to install for fix (1) is called
valgrind:
valgrind:    On Debian, Ubuntu:                 libc6-dbg
valgrind:    On SuSE, openSuSE, Fedora, RHEL:   glibc-debuginfo
valgrind:
valgrind:  Cannot continue -- exiting now.  Sorry.


I do have the libc6-dbg package installed:

> dpkg -l |  grep libc6
ii  libc6:amd64
2.13-38                            amd64        Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared libraries
ii  libc6:i386
2.13-38                            i386         Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared libraries
ii  libc6-amd64
2.13-38                            i386         Embedded GNU C Library:
64bit Shared libraries for AMD64
ii  libc6-dbg:amd64
2.13-38                            amd64        Embedded GNU C Library:
detached debugging symbols
ii  libc6-dbg:i386
2.13-38                            i386         Embedded GNU C Library:
detached debugging symbols
ii  libc6-dev:amd64
2.13-38                            amd64        Embedded GNU C Library:
Development Libraries and Header Files
ii  libc6-dev:i386
2.13-38                            i386         Embedded GNU C Library:
Development Libraries and Header Files
ii  libc6-dev-amd64
2.13-38                            i386         Embedded GNU C Library:
64bit Development Libraries for AMD64
ii  libc6-i386
2.13-38                            amd64        Embedded GNU C Library:
32-bit shared libraries for AMD64
ii  libc6-i686:i386
2.13-38                            i386         Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared libraries [i686 optimized]

This seems related to #695218, but in my case the executable is not a 32
bit applicatoin.

I am reporting this as "grave" given that it renders the package unusable,
and I have can't think of anything that makes my rather fresh installation
unique in any way.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages valgrind depends on:
ii  libc6      2.13-38
ii  libc6-dbg  2.13-38

Versions of packages valgrind recommends:
ii  gdb           7.4.1+dfsg-0.1
ii  valgrind-dbg  1:3.7.0-6

Versions of packages valgrind suggests:
pn  alleyoop      <none>
pn  kcachegrind   <none>
pn  valgrind-mpi  <none>
pn  valkyrie      <none>

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