[lsb-discuss] libchk failed on libX11.so.6

Stew Benedict stewb at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Aug 10 04:48:48 PDT 2010


On 08/09/2010 11:06 PM, haishan wrote:
> Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>   
>> lsb-discuss-bounces at lists.linux-foundation.org wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The library check on libX11.so.6 failed
>>>
>>> Checking symbols in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
>>> Did not find XauDisposeAuth (unversioned) in libX11.so.6
>>> Did not find XauFileName (unversioned) in libX11.so.6
>>> Did not find XauGetBestAuthByAddr (unversioned) in libX11.so.6
>>> Did not find XauReadAuth (unversioned) in libX11.so.6
>>>
>>>
>>> This BUG related to http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330,
>>> the entry said the BUG#1330 was resolved, but still exits in
>>> lsb-dist-testkit-4.0.1-1.x86_64.tar.gz
>>>     
>>>       
>> yes, the reason for the failure is pretty simple, it's that
>> these symbols are not directly in a modern libX11, but
>> instead in the external libXau, which libX11 requires.
>> What we don't understand is why this problem has come back,
>> because libchk does now know how to follow dependency
>> chains to resolve symbols.  You're not the first person
>> to report this is still happening, although at the moment
>> I don't recall if the other report also came from the same
>> company.
>>
>> can you report the version of libchk itself?
>> you can ask libchk (libchk -v) or the version tag is
>> embedded in the journal file (journal.libchk), a line like
>>
>> 30||VSX_NAME=
>>
>>   
>>     
> 30||VSX_NAME=lsblibchk 4.0.0-2 (x86_64)
>
>
>   
This has 2 related bugs:

http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330

It then resurfaced as, in the 4.0 timeframe:

http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2873

Snapshot builds, or packages built to be part of some future '4.0 update
2' should correct the issue:

 http://dev.linuxfoundation.org/~stewb/4.0-updates/

-- 
Stew Benedict
Linux Foundation




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