Bug#430984: pthreads issue with libc6
severity 430984 grave
reassign 430984 linux-2.6
forcemerge 433187 430984
thanks
BERTRAND Joël a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
>> 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.
>
> I have tested with 2.6.21.5. It seems to run longer than with
> 2.6.20.11, but I can see the same troubles... I will test tomorrow with
> 2.6.22-rc7.
>
This is definitively a kernel problem. Reassigning & merging the bug.
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