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Bug#361024: this is glibc bug (feature?) [Was: Simple test case]



On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:36:43 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Aurelian Jarno pointed out the following: only reproducible with 2.4
> kernels or if you (re)move /lib/tls on a 2.6 kernel.

Current glibc does not support TLS under 2.4 kernels (see #226716), so
this is probalby glibc bug (some people call it feature).
I'm going to install 2.6 kernel to check if the problem goes away.
Naive

aptitude install linux-image-2.6.16-1-686-smp

fails with numerious errors, e.g. due to initrd generation scripts 
expecting /sys to be mounted, so I need some time to figure out how to
fix things and write bug report[s].

> Officially we don't support 2.4 kernels anymore, whatever "deprecated"
> means.
> See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00007.html

This document does not mention that (user-space) software will break
under 2.4 kernels. Making this (more) explicit would help to avoid confusion.

Best regards,
 Alexei.

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