Problems running <whatever>_applet

[Anders Wegge Jakobsen <wegge wegge dk>]

Hi!

 I've never been able to successfully launch an applet, neither from
the panel, or standalone[1], without getting a SIGSEGV. Now that I've
got a little spare time on my hands, I'm trying to track this problem
down, but considering the number of elements involved, I'd like to
hear if anybody else have seen the same. No matter which applet I'm
starting, the result will be a segmentation fault, with a backtrace
similar to this:

#0  0xbfffeb64 in ?? ()
#1  0x40005b8e in _dl_catch_error ()
#2  0x40643663 in nss_dlerror_run (operate=0xbfffebd8 <start_fct.9+2140737296>)
    at nsswitch.c:251
#3  0x40643936 in nss_lookup_function (ni=0x80b01d8,
    fct_name=0x4065c061 "gethostbyname_r") at nsswitch.c:350
#4  0x40643443 in __nss_lookup () at nsswitch.c:129
#5  0x40644225 in __nss_hosts_lookup (ni=0xbfffec90,
    fct_name=0x4065c061 "gethostbyname_r", fctp=0xbfffec8c) at XXX-lookup.c:66
#6  0x406461e2 in __gethostbyname_r (name=0x80afe50 "obelix",
    resbuf=0x4066d118, buffer=0x80af9c8 "üù\n\bìù\n\b\002", buflen=1024,
    result=0xbfffed0c, h_errnop=0xbfffed08) at ../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:141
#7  0x40645286 in gethostbyname (name=0x80afe50 "obelix")
    at ../nss/getXXbyYY.c:142
#8  0x401d35d8 in MICO::InetAddress::resolve_ip ()
#9  0x401d4032 in MICO::InetAddress::ipaddr ()
#10 0x401d458a in MICO::InetAddress::hostname ()
#11 0x401d3d85 in MICO::InetAddress::make_ior_profile ()
#12 0x401f3196 in MICO::IIOPServer::listen ()
#13 0x401f333d in MICO::IIOPServer::listen ()
#14 0x401e190a in CORBA::ORB_init ()
#15 0x40019975 in panel_initialize_corba ()
#16 0x400185e2 in gnome_panel_applet_init_corba ()
#17 0x40019e75 in _applet_widget_new_with_param ()
#18 0x40019fb6 in applet_widget_new ()
#19 0x804bce6 in main ()

 Given this backtrace, the problem seem to be with libc, but no matter
what combination of compiler {gcc-2.7.3, gcc-2.8.0, egcs-1.0.2,
egcs-1.0.3} and glibc {2.0.6, 2.0.7} I've tried with, the result stays
the same. To make matters even worse, a frind of mine has perfect
results with glibc-2.0.7 (which doesn't work for me).

 So if somebody can help me reducing this list of potential troubles,
I'd be very happy:

 egcs-1.0.3
 binutils-2.9.1
 glibc-2.0.7
 mico from Gnome CVS

--
/Wegge


[1] I assume there is no difference, as long as the panel is running.