Bug#673596: libc6: FTBFS on wheezy/sid amd64 (test suite failures)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Philip Ashmore wrote:

> .tf1: pthread_create failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> tf1: pthread_create failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

That's EAGAIN, which usually would mean some resource limit has been
hit (or an out-of-memory condition).  Does one of

	ulimit -a
	cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max

reveal anything interesting?

[...]
> Also , tst-writev.out contains <<EOF
> writev() return value: 2147479552 != EXPECTED: 2147483648
> EOF

Yeah, that's a known bug (<http://bugs.debian.org/629862>).

> Sorry if I was cryptic/terse.

No problem, and thanks for testing.

Jonathan