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Bug#219610: sleep has illegal instruction with glibc 2.3.2: stmxcsr ?



On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:24:17PM +0100, Claus Fischer wrote:
> 
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2-9
> 
> 
> The shell command 'sleep 1' gives an 'illegal instruction' error.
> As you can see below, apparently on an stmxcsr. (I don't speak
> assembler very well :-) This is with the current 'testing' glibc.
> 
> Very likely a libc problem.
> 
> 
> Apparently someone's encountered that already, but I didn't find
> it filed as a bug:
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg02806.html
> I don't know for sure whether it's a problem of libc, kernel, or
> the sleep program, but I can give two configurations with different
> behaviour:

I have no idea how you are seeing this in 2.3.2-9.  No one ever
reported it for that version before.  On the other hand, it was a known
problem in 2.3.2.ds1-7, and fixed in 2.3.2.ds1-10 (in unstable).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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