Re: ds1 series libc crashing in wait()
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:00:59PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> I am having problems with programs crashing if they execute
> sub-processes. I believe the crash is happening when programs call
> wait(), based on straces of the crashing programs.
>
> I believe this problem is libc's fault, since it started happening when
> I upgraded libc. I don't upgrade very often, and yesterday I upgraded
> to the latest sid libc. The libc I upgraded from was before the ds1
> series.
>
> I am running this Debian installation in a chroot (inside a RedHat
> installation, actually), so I tried bootstrapping another sid chroot
> from scratch. I get the same error; dpkg segfaults when it runs the
> preinst for the first package.
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux trimble1dhcp30.ups.edu 2.6.0-0.test6.1.49 #1 Mon Oct 6 10:15:33 EDT 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Any other information I can provide? Does this seem likely to be a libc
> problem?
Recent versions of libc use a different syscall for waiting, iirc.
What kernel is this, and can you try a stock 2.6.0-test6 or
2.6.0-test9? I've run it on both of those without problem which makes
me suspect your kernel.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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