Bug#218546: libc6: Version 2.3.2.ds1-8 makes all programs segfault
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-8
Severity: critical
Tags: sid
Justification: breaks the whole system
I was running an unmodified 2.4.22 Linux kernel from the
kernel-source-2.4.22 package. I ran both apt-get update and apt-get
dist-upgrade. I verified that I wanted the programs upgraded and
installed. When it came time for libc6 to be configured, everything
went okay. The locales package came next, but somehow configuration was
frozen. I waited ten minutes, then pressed Ctrl+C. I tried running
apt-get again, but I received this message:
-bash: ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c:132: __libc_fork: Assertion `({ __typeof (self->tid) __value; if (sizeof (__value) == 1) asm volatile ("movb %%gs:%P2,%b0" : "=q" (__value) : "0" (0), "i" (((size_t) &((struct pthread *)0)->tid))); else if (sizeof (__value) == 4) asm volatile ("movl %%gs:%P11,%0" : "=r" (__value) : "i" (((size_t) &((struct pthread *)0)->tid))); else { if (sizeof (__value) != 8) abort (); asm volatile ("movl %%gs:%P1,%%eax\n\t" "movl %%gs:%P2,%%edx" : "=A" (__value) : "i" (((size_t) &((struct pthread *)0)->tid)), "i" (((size_t) &((struct pthread *)0)->tid) + 4)); } __value; }) != ppid' failed.
Segmentation fault
All the other applications I tried to run gave me the same error, so I
cut off power to my system and rebooted into a burned copy of
bootbf2.4.iso, which is where I am now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux drop 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
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