line 55: 14898 Aborted

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

could you please attach the /var/log/prelink.log ? thanks

prelink log.

Hmm. looks like something with Thunderbird is screwing it up.

Log with Thunderbird removed. (Still crashes)

(Sorry) Bump.

I hacked my way around this problem using "sudo prelink -amvR". I then took the failed to prelink files and blacklisted them in /etc/prelink.conf. The main file causing this bug is /usr/lib/klibc/bin. Once that file was blacklisted I received prelink.bin.assert failure /src/conflict.c:763. After blacklisting 5 subsequent files I was able to get prelink to finish a system prelink using /etc/cron.daily/prelink. I have attached a copy of my prelink.conf file. All files at the bottom of the list that are blacklisted cause a failure with prelinking. I hope this helps.

Prelink.conf

# This config file contains a list of directories both with binaries
# and libraries prelink should consider by default.
# If a directory name is prefixed with `-l ', the directory hierarchy
# will be walked as long as filesystem boundaries are not crossed.
# If a directory name is prefixed with `-h ', symbolic links in a
# directory hierarchy are followed.
# Directories or files with `-b ' prefix will be blacklisted.
-b *.la
-b *.png
-b *.py
-b *.pl
-b *.pm
-b *.sh
-b *.xml
-b *.xslt
-b *.a
-b *.js
-b /lib/modules
-b /usr/lib/locale
-l /usr/local/sbin
-l /sbin
-l /usr/sbin
-l /usr/local/bin
-l /bin
-l /usr/bin
-l /usr/X11R6/bin
-l /usr/games
-l /usr/local/lib
-l /lib
-l /usr/lib
-l /usr/X11R6/lib
-b /usr/lib/klibc/bin
-b /usr/lib/thunderbird-10.0.2/plugin-container
-b /usr/lib/nvidia-current/bin/nvidia-smi
-b /usr/lib/libreoffice
-b /usr/lib/ure/bin
-b /usr/bin/aptitude-curses

I've tracked the libreoffice problem down to these two files so I didn't need to blacklist all of Libreoffice:

-b /usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program
-b /usr/lib/libreoffice/program

Fine...but not really a viable solution for using the prelinking tool the normal way.
May I also add that after 5 months from the notification, this bug is still "undecided" and "unassigned" !

On 03/06/2012 08:57 AM, Gilles Tournier wrote:
> Fine...but not really a viable solution for using the prelinking tool the normal way.
> May I also add that after 5 months from the notification, this bug is still "undecided" and "unassigned" !
>
I was reading in the Debian forums that the prelink package maintainer
is AWOL and not responding to emails. So who knows what the fate of this
package will be. I know this is a hack but it gets the package running
for now.

Thank you Jason for this information. I also suspected that this package's development had "stalled"...
Our only hope now, is that perhaps this was only a bug introduced by 11.10 Oneiric...and that the coming release of 12.04 would have solved it. We will see...

From what I've been able to find out Libreoffice uses wrapper scripts on launch that manually set LD_LIBRARY_PATH preventing prelink from finding the dependencies. I'm not certain if these other files are doing the same thing.

It appears that /usr/lib/klibc/bin files aren't dynamic executable but are statically linked. Since prelink aids dynamic linking by linking in advance & relocating the executable, these files aren't compatible with prelinking.

You are right and this is quite a discovery!
Now the question is: what exactly are these statically linked executable doing there in /usr/lib/klibc/bin? To what purpose would they be used instead of the same basic unix executable inside /bin (which are all dynamically linked) ? Are they used at all?
Are these a new addition which appeared with 11.10?