[Bug 1790966] Re: Electron apps segfault on glibc 2.28 (cosmic)

[Maarten Fonville]

I don't know if the BFD linker or gold would work.

Ofc the fix would be to rebuild all respective Electron apps, but I
doubt all (proprietary) apps will already have a new release by October.
The fix for Electron was only released end of August.

It is a very unexpected regression, because goal is (and  assumed to be
true) that glibc ABI doesn't break.

IMHO it is best to make the same choice as Arch, and avoiding breakage,
until most Electron apps will have a chance to upgrade their Electron
core.

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Title:
  Electron apps segfault on glibc 2.28 (cosmic)

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Electron apps (like Atom) give a segfault when trying to start them on Ubuntu Cosmic.
  Apparently this is related to a certain commit that is part of glibc 2.28.

  Could the workaround as e.g. Arch has implemented also be applied to
  Ubuntu, otherwise many pre-compiled applications will not work when
  Cosmic will be released.

  For more information, see bug:
  https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/13972

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