Re: glibc 2.1 is now on master in my homedir

[Anton Blanchard <anton@progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

> 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.

sparc32 vfork has been broken until very recently. It should be fixed
in the cvs tree.

Anton