On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:19:43AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Florian Lohoff a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > today rem.rfc822.org once again crashed as it did on the 11th. This time
> > i captured the oops on the serial console.
>
> This could be related to the glibc 2.5. We have uploaded it on the 11th
> and on the 14th, but the package is still marked as building. We got no
> news from mipsel@buildd.debian.org.
>
> That seems to be coherent with the fact ld.so is mentioned in dmesg.
> Could you please verify that glibc was building at that time it crashes?
> Also if you have access at ball could you please verify the problem is
> the same on mips?
I guess the glibc build was ongoing:
drwxr-xr-x 5 buildd buildd 4096 Apr 14 21:32 glibc-2.5/
I guess we have discovered some kind of kernel exploit or at least DoS
as a kernel crash based on whatever the userspace does is unacceptable.
I was just observing the crashes and as i got more than "machine is
dead" i felt like better send it people. My hope was that Thiemo or
someone else knows about this and can tell whether this is fixed in
the current etch kernel.
> Note that glibc 2.5-1 builds and work correctly here on both my local
> mips and mipsel machines, it builds well also on casals.debian.org.
> Maybe a kernel upgrade could fix the problem.
Selfmade or Debian kernel ?
Flo
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