On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:33:40PM -0700, Sasha Pachev wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2002 11:59 am, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> > >?This does look like a libc bug. How did you build either one of the 
> binaries?
> > 
> > They're your binaries. ?I don't buld my own binaries on Linux to save
> > the hassle of using libraries that are different from what you folks
> > use. :-)
> > 
> > Strangely, it's working now--after a reboot. ?I'm gonna keep an eye on
> > that machine.
> 
> If it is working after reboot, I would name the disk cache
> corruption as the primary suspect. My hypothesis is that you were
> unlucky to have libnss.so cached in the buggy part of the disk
> cache. Although our binaries are statically linked, on Linux calls
> to name resolving functions allways require loading a shared
> library, even if you are doing it from a statically linked binary.

Could be.  I sure hope that's not the case, but who knows at this point.

> What kernel version are you running, and is this a virgin kernel
> from kernel.org or a patched one from some Linux distribution?

The box is currently running a 2.4.12 that I don't *think* is
patched.  I've gotta talk to the guy who builds our linux kernels and
get an upgrade on that machine anyway.

> P.S. "It works after reboot" is an ominous phrase that I hope will
> be chased out of the Linux world quickly.

Yeah, it really surprised me.

> We need to track down this problem ASAP and send a full bug report
> to the kernel developers.

Agreed.

Jeremy
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