Package: libc6 Version: 2.2.5-14.3 Severity: important I have had a problem for a while with pdnsd (see bug 101159), where after a bit of uptime, it starts giving zombies whenever it is asked to resolve a new name. Restarting the daemon killed the zombies, but then they would reappear straight away, as soon as something new was resolved. I found this was affecting other programs that used threads as well, such as galeon/mozilla.
But I just noticed something new. I apt-get upgraded (tracking unstable/testing) and a new libc6 was installed. I noticed a line in my syslog that always happens when I upgrade libc6: "Sep 19 13:26:32 scuzzie init: Trying to re-exec init" And ever since about then, zombies haven't been getting reaped. I didn't think init was meant to take part in reaping when the program is still alive (I thought init only inherited the child once it's parent died), but could this be the cause of my woes? 'ps axf' clearly shows the zombies parent is still the parent pdsnd process, so I have no idea. I will try to keep this box alive, so you can get me to experiment, as long as a developer gets back to me reasonably quickly! If it turns out that one shouldn't upgrade libc6 on a box that is to remain up after the upgrade, perhaps having a big warning notice not to upgrade libc6 until you are ready to power down? Even for testing/unstable (I know I should know better than to run this on a box that is meant to be stable)! -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux scuzzie 2.4.19+openmosix #1 Wed Sep 11 15:31:26 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages libc6 depends on: ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-4 The Berkeley database routines [gl -- no debconf information -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
