Bug#837700: gnutls: GNUTLS segfaults on initialization

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-09-15 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:
> On 2016-09-14 J Phelps <phelpsj at nuvox.net> wrote:
[...]
>> Instead, I had unresolved symbols (I don't remember which ones),

> Can you reproduce this and show the exact error message?

>> and I had
>> to go to Nettle's Git repository (https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle)
>> to find source code that could produce a linkable library. The symbols
>> that were unresolved were only found in the "ecc-support" branch of that
>> repo. Compiling from the trunk led to the same symbols being unresolved.
> [...]

> I strongly suspect a local issue, e.g. locally built old version of
> gnutls or nettle in /usr/local. "ldd  /usr/lib/chromium/chromium" might
> point in the right direction.

Or is it the same issue as
https://bugs.debian.org/835342 which was caused by installation of
ancient packages from Debian multimedia?

cu Andreas
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