Bug#430984: pthreads issue with libc6

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

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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