Bug#412799: [Yaird-devel] Bug#412799: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 does not boot

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Hi all,

Strumpled across this thread just now. Thanks for all the work on
resolving this!



Steve Langasek wrote:

> lib/ld-linux.so.2 is a broken symlink pointing to ld-2.5.soso. 
> libuuid.so.1 is also a broken symlink, which would cause a failure later in
> the boot process if ld-linux.so.2 wasn't broken; as is
> ./lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2, a symlink pointing to "libdl-2.5.somov".
> 
> So, now it just bears determining why these symlinks are broken.  That's
> more than a little unusual, frankly; somehow the target of each of these
> links seems to have gotten corrupted with extra characters after the end of
> the name, which to me suggests that the name is being written to a reused
> buffer and the string is not being null-terminated.  Now how is that
> happening, when yaird is written in perl?

Yaird comes with a few small helper tools written in C, including
"findlibs" which probably is to blame here.

I would very much appreciate help looking into that (I cannot code C).



 - Jonas


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