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Date:Sun Apr 2 10:30:41 2006 
Subject:pop-forum Fedora core 4 + kernel 2.6.16 won't let poplog start 
From:Aaron Sloman 
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Linux development keeps clobbering poplog!

Matthias Scheutz reported that he cant start pop11 or basepo11 in
FC4 + the latest kernel 2.6.16

I confirmed this by installing this pre-built version on my FC4
desktop:
    Date            Name            Origin       Kernel     SWSusp
    2006/03/30   2.6.16-1.2069_FC4   FC4-Update  2.6.16.1    2.2.1

at Mathias Hensler's download page:
    http://mhensler.de/swsusp/download_en.php

trying to run basepop11, or corepop produces an unstoppable stream
of access violation messages (I have to suspend and kill).

Everything works fine on an earlier build from the same repository
    2006/03/03  2.6.15-1.1833_FC4   FC4-Update  2.6.15.5    2.2 FC4

I wonder if this is another of Redhat's security fixes?

I won't be able to do anything with that. It needs someone familiar
with something like gdb, which I have never used.

I am inclined to abandon Fedora and move to Ubuntu or Suse to avoid
these hassles.

A visitor a few days ago had no problem installing V15.6 on the
latest (I think?) Suse. The installation script just worked.

(But we still need to make changes to remove all traces of var-args:
I can no longer run
    $usepop/pop/extern/lib/mklibpop

It complains about
    $usepop/pop/extern/lib/c_core.c

Aaron