Bug#506420: incorrect hwcap line in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc6-xen.conf?
reassign 506420 linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-686
thanks
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:14:29AM +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Package: libc6-xen
> Version: 2.7-16
>
> As shipped, /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc6-xen.conf read as follows:
>
> # This directive teaches ldconfig to search in nosegneg subdirectories
> # and cache the DSOs there with extra bit 1 set in their hwcap match
> # fields. In Xen guest kernels, the vDSO tells the dynamic linker to
> # search in nosegneg subdirectories and to match this extra hwcap bit
> # in the ld.so.cache file.
> hwcap 1 nosegneg
>
> However I still got thousands of "4gb seg fixup" messages and ldd
> revealed that the runtime linker was not using the Xen-friendly Libc.
>
> Changing the 1 to 0, based on a mailing list posting I found, fixed the
> problem.
>
> Unfortunately I've not found where any of this is documented (the
> ldconfig man page does not contain any useful pointers) so this is
> slightly guesswork on my part. Perhaps the man page could be improved.
The value in this file is the correct one.
> (I'm using etch's Xen and running testing and unstable VMs; the kernel
> in all cases is 2.6.18-6-xen-686.)
>
This kernel is broken, reassigning the bug.
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