Bug#561203: FTBFS [hppa] - pthread_create() (QThread) + fork() = crash

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Helge Deller wrote:
> On 12/27/2009 04:38 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Luk Claes<luk@debian.org>  wrote:
>>> What's the status of this bug? It's holding the KDE transition which is
>>> blocking the Xorg and python transitions...
>>
>> I'm working on this bug. The current status is "under investigation."
>> I don't have a good idea of what is going on or why it's crashing.
> 
> I could reproduce this bug as well and will continue to debug as soon
> as I return back from christmas family visits.
> 
> 
> My current analysis/assumption is:

> So, maybe the kernel implementation of clone() misses
> some cache flush instructions for the newly created child
> in the pthread_create() case... ?
> 
> That said... I still need some more time for testing...

Thanks to both of you for the update. Hopefully the cause can be
identiefied and fixed soon.

Cheers

Luk