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Why does Slack return a Segmentation fault after Fedora 29 upgrade?


I have upgraded Fedora from 28 to the latest 29 and Slack doesn't work anymore. It returns a Segmentation fault (core dumped).

Edit: The issue has been fixed on Slack 3.3.4


Solution

  • With valgrind I obtained this output:

    Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core
     Bad permissions for mapped region at address 0xDBF060
       at 0xDBF060: ??? (in /usr/lib/slack/slack)
       by 0x7112071: node::http2::Http2Session::Callbacks::Callbacks(bool) (in /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so)
       by 0x7112134: ??? (in /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so)
       by 0x5853CE9: call_init.part.0 (in /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so)
       by 0x5853DE9: _dl_init (in /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so)
       by 0x5845149: ??? (in /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so)
    

    It seems the issue is inside an "outdated" version of libnode.so. I just copied another version of libnode.so from the latest atom.rpm installation with:

    sudo mv /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so.old sudo ln -s /usr/share/atom/libnode.so /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so


    Edit

    Like user Pierre Bellan already said, you can easily find other version of libnode.so on your OS with: sudo updatedb && locate libnode

    I used the atom one because I was sure about a recent working update of the editor.