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Re: fdisk crashes (Was: glibc 2.1.93)
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: fdisk crashes (Was: glibc 2.1.93)
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:48:56 -0700
- Cc: drepper at cygnus dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <m366ogq5qq.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> <200009051926.VAA03008@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> <20000905144244.A16948@lucon.org>
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:42:44PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:26:53PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > On my RedHat 5.2 installation, after upgrading numerous utilities and
> > recently installing glibc 2.1.93, I now find that fdisk crashes:
> >
> > [root@mira martin]# /sbin/fdisk
> > Using /dev/sda as default device!
> > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1109.
> > This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
> > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> >
> > Segmentation fault
> >
>
> Ulrich, we have to check glibc 2.0. This patch seems to work for me.
>
>
> H.J.
> ---
> 2000-09-05 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
>
> * libio/libio.h (_IO_fwide): Check for libio in glibc 2.0.
>
This patch is not correct. I am looking into it now.
H.J.