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Bug#576800: libc6: Cannot create new processes after hibernating



Francois Gouget a écrit :
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.10.2-6
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> 
> After resuming my EeePC from hibernation, I can no longer start new 
> processes. This goes so far as preventing shutdown since init itself 
> cannot be forked so that the only solution is a hard reset. Hence the 
> 'breaks the whole system' justification. Also, although this only 
> happens after hibernating, I feel this is a pretty unavoidable activity 
> on a laptop.
> 
> Since no new process can be started (including gdb, strace, etc), this 
> is quite hard to debug. I do get some traces in /var/log/syslog though:
> 
> Apr  7 11:58:47 malte kernel: [  122.856385] sh[2687]: segfault at b773f11f ip b772f001 sp bffb8300 error 7 in ld-2.10.2.so[b7725000+1c000]
> Apr  7 11:58:47 malte kernel: [  122.961515] date[2690]: segfault at b781f11f ip b780f001 sp bfaaed00 error 7 in ld-2.10.2.so[b7805000+1c000]
> Apr  7 11:58:47 malte kernel: [  122.963258] sort[2693]: segfault at b78e311f ip b78d3001 sp bfa10ad0 error 7 in ld-2.10.2.so[b78c9000+1c000]
> Apr  7 11:58:47 malte kernel: [  122.963836] uniq[2694]: segfault at b787c11f ip b786c001 sp bfa5fdc0 error 7 in ld-2.10.2.so[b7862000+1c000]
> Apr  7 11:58:47 malte kernel: [  122.966155] rm[2696]: segfault at b770711f ip b76f7001 sp bff05d20 error 7 in ld-2.10.2.so[b76ed000+1c000]
> 
> I am reporting this bug against libc6 because if I understand the above 
> traces correctly, they indicate that the crash occurs in ld-2.10.2.so 
> which belongs to libc6. But I acknowledge that the bug may instead be in 
> the Linux kernel. In my case:
> 
> ii  linux-image-2.6-686                    2.6.32+25                  Linux 2.6 for modern PCs
> ii  linux-image-2.6.32-3-686               2.6.32-9                   Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
> 

What is your video card? If it is and Intel one, it's likely a memory
corruption caused by the video driver:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13811
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534422

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