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#1 2009-11-12 01:37:51
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[Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
I have noticed that since the last update to glibc and binutils it is not possible to input non-english characters in skype, they will be converted to a question mark inside a black square.
Downgrading to the previous packages solves the problem, however it doesn't seem to be a good idea to ignore the upgrade of these packages for too long.
Any ideas on how to work around this?
I guess I should probably submit a bug report but it's a bit late here already and I'd like to read some comments on this first.
Edit:
Marking as solved.
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#2 2009-11-12 08:12:10
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Re: [Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
Same problem here!
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#3 2009-11-12 08:19:56
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Re: [Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
Does any other program have an issue?
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#4 2009-11-12 08:46:27
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Re: [Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
Does any other program have an issue?
Not that I have noticed, when I detected this I have tried to input some text in medit and it worked fine, before that I had tried checking the font settings in qtconfig and it worked too (skype is a qt app so that was the first place to look I guess).
I forgot to say before but I'm using arch64 and using the lib32-* stuff, and the downgrade concerns glibc and binutils and not lib32-glibc.
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#5 2009-11-12 08:54:16
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Re: [Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
I forgot to say before but I'm using arch64 and using the lib32-* stuff, and the downgrade concerns glibc and binutils and not lib32-glibc.
Weird... very weird.
Can anyone replicate on i686?
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#6 2009-11-12 10:02:17
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Re: [Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
i've updated lib32-glibc. tell me if is working fine after updating.
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#7 2009-11-12 11:13:31
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Re: [Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
I got another program written in c++ wich uses the opengl (i made it myself) that is not working now.
I updated the gcc + gcc-libs + glibc + kernel + kernel headers
you got the output of the app here:
http://dpaste.com/119511/
I'm running the i686 arch
~ $ pacman -Qs glibc
local/glibc 2.11-1 [31,59 MB] (base)
GNU C Library
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#8 2009-11-12 11:18:09
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Re: [Solved] Latest glibc and binutils and skype
The update of lib32-glibc solved the problem for me.
System is up to date and all seems to be working well.
$ pacman -Qs glibc
local/glibc 2.11-1 (base)
GNU C Library
local/lib32-glibc 2.11-1 (lib32)
GNU C Library (32 Bit)R00KIE
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