Bug#414606: Stacktraces and deadlocked threads.

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

close 414606 2.5-0exp5
merge 399035 414606
thanks

Russell Sears a écrit :
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.6.ds1-11
> 
> If a thread is involved in a deadlock, gdb reports a corrupt stack trace
> for that thread.  This problem has been fixed in 2.5-0exp6, but it
> sounds like 2.5 won't make it into etch.  Until then, libc6-dbg can be
> used as a workaround since debugging versions of 2.3.6 use an older
> pthreads implementation.

This is a known problem, but we can't fix it for glibc 2.3.6.

> Can debugging in libc6 2.3.6 be fixed in time for etch?  If not,

Etch's glibc is frozen.

> libc6-dbg's package description probably should document the problem.

That's also not possible, as glibc is totally frozen in Etch.


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