severity 430984 grave reassign 430984 linux-2.6 forcemerge 433187 430984 thanks
BERTRAND Joël a écrit : > Aurelien Jarno a écrit : >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:22:51PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: >>> Package: libc6 >>> Version: 2.5-9 >>> Arch: sparc64 >> ^^^^^^^ >> huh?? Is it really sparc64? >> >>> Severity: important >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have seen a lot of troubles with all programs that use threads on >>> a Sun U80/smp running debian testing. >>> >>> clamd, bind, milter-greylist, mimedefang, fail2ban and a lot of >>> other multithreaded programs stop with dead lock. They don't die, but >>> remain in sleep state (mutex trouble ?). This trouble appear when I have >>> installed libc6 2.5-9. Kernel is 2.6.20.11. >>> >> With glibc 2.5, the threading library has switched to NPTL on sparc, >> which has triggered a lot of kernel bugs. This is likely the case here. >> >> Please try to update your kernel to 2.6.21 (or 2.6.22-rc) and see if it >> helps. > > I have tested with 2.6.21.5. It seems to run longer than with > 2.6.20.11, but I can see the same troubles... I will test tomorrow with > 2.6.22-rc7. > This is definitively a kernel problem. Reassigning & merging the bug. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

