Bug#433187: linux-2.6 - [sparc64-smp] produces unkillable processes

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:17:33AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> anyway we were able to reproduce the problem by doing some fancy building on
> Niagara and that already isolate the problems to a more generic bit of the code
> rather than CPU specific.

I'm able to reproduce it with something like:
for i in $(seq 0 10000); do (dpkg-query python2.5-minimal > /dev/null &); done

But with 2.6.23-rc4 this dies with the niagara problem but the futex one.

> I personally have no say on how buildds should be managed.. i guess it's up to
> you guys if you want to kick it back. If you do so just make sure you can grab
> CPU register dumps from console.

I can get one.

Bastian

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