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Re: glibc 2.1 is now on master in my homedir



On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> > Can you try this new patch I have (sparc32-chown.dpatch) and build on
> > the sparc 20? I've tries building this against 2.2.5 headers from vger
> > cvs and still had the same problems, so this is either not a kernel
> > issue or it's one that isn't fixed.
> 
> This isn't the problem. modprobe is locking up.  Whenever a module is
> autoloaded, the system locks up.  The last thing modprobe does is:
> 
>   SYS_66(
> 
> Which should be a 'vfork()'.  I'm not entirely sure what is going
> wrong here.  In the kernel vfork calls exactly the same code as fork
> (although the entry code is different in sparc64).  I would suspect a
> kernel problem, but the older version of libc works.

That's isn't a direct problem then since my LX has modules disabled.

> I'll add your patch to a fresh tree and try rebuilding. 

Ok.


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