On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Note: it appears you're replying to a mirror or peer of this list > hosted at Virginia Tech. Just FYI it makes replies slightly painful -- > my usual list response doesn't recognize your address. You might > consider subscribing directly to debian-user.
It was typo on my part in an original send, and when I resent it I forgot to adjust the to: header. Any one who has repsonded or tried to respond, please accept my apologies. __SNIPPED REDUNDANT STUFF__ > > I'm not an expert at reading strace, but my read is that you're either > running into a memory allocation error (which would explain the > segmentation fault), or you clipped your strace output after the error > occured. I agree that was my thoughts too, but with limited C knowledge I was n't 100% sure. > > You might also look at your library linkages and see what this app wants > to link to. 'ldd' will do this. The 'ltrace' command is an equivalent > to strace for tracking library calls. I'm suspecting a minor library > variation between RH and Debian is tripping you up. I did the ldd and although it does link against libc.so.6 (as the program requires) it also links against libc.so.5, ridiculous in my opinion. I have sent a message to some of the iplanet support newsgroups, unfortunatley I don't have a support agreement with them so unless someone in the groups knows of the problem I guess I am stuck. > > You might also try contacting the developer directly -- they may know of > other users who've attempted to run under Debian. > > WRT Debian and RH, the general trend seems to be to approach the Debian > way, but that's a long argument. We're aware of RH, and to a large > extent, it's nice for them to make mistakes that we can avoid. > > I will not even pretend to be able to resolve such a problem on my own (I thank everybody for their advice). I do have a concern that this may not be the only software that is having this problem, which is why I mention it here and not to all commercial developers. I will seek an answer with iplanet and if I find a resolution for it I will let this list know of it, I only hope that this is the only commercial app with this problem. One app with this problem is a problem for the app. If their are many it could be a problem for Debian. But with the high quality of Debian, I am thinking it is probably just this app. Thanks for every ones help, Stewart James
