Bug#430984: pthreads issue with libc6
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.
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