Bug 60036

Summary:	glibc-2.3.4.20040808 leads to lock-ups
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Prakash Punnoor <prakashp>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Prakash Punnoor 2004-08-11 01:02:26 UTC

Yup, I know it is keyword-masked, so I don't know whether you want bug reports. If not, please ignore.

I gave above version a try and it made my system unstable, ie my machine locked up after some hours of work. (So the last two days I had about 8 lock-ups.) I downgraded to 20040619-r1 and everything is fine again.

The last time I expereinced such behaviour was when I changed the glibc on a non NPTL system to NPTL enabled one. But this system has been NPTL enabled since stage1.

I wonder whether a emerge -e world would have stabilized it...or are any recent glibc bugs know leading to above behaviour?



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.50-r9 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.7-ck6)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-ck6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm)
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -ftracer -pipe -frename-registers
-fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -ftracer -pipe
-frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest prelink sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/lportage"
SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage/"
USE="3dnow S3TC X Xaw3d aac acpi acpi4linux alsa apm arts avi berkdb cddb
cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dga divx4linux dlloader dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread
encode ext-png ext-zlib faac faad ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb freetype gdbm gif
gimp gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml ieee1394 imlib
ipv6 javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mmx
monkey motif moznocompose mpeg mpi ncurses nls nocd nptl nvidia oggvorbis openal
opengl openssh pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt qtmt quicktime readline
samba scanner sdl slang smime speex spell sse ssl tcpd tetex theora threads tiff
transcode truetype usb videos wmf wxwindows x86 xfs xine xinetd xml xml2 xmms xv
xvid yv12 zlib"

Comment 1 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-11 09:09:17 UTC

no bugs that i know of, but i dont use NPTL... and i would need a -lot- more information to debug this since this version works perfectly here.

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-12 01:21:26 UTC

Hi,

I installed glibc-2.3.4.20040808 last night and let the computer run through the whole night after that. Not even one single lockup the last eight hours...

Poly

Comment 3 Prakash Punnoor 2004-08-12 05:27:50 UTC

Well, maybe it is nvidia binary driver related. I am using 61.06 and glibc 20040619-r1 and since yesterday all is fine again. Anyone here using nvidia driver? Mybe we will get more lock-ups reports from nvidia users since now glibc 20040808 has become ~x86...

Comment 4 Gregg Casillo 2004-08-17 10:02:33 UTC

I posted a comment to the forums regarding a problem I've consistently seen with glibc-2.3.3-20040808. In short, all of the computers I've updated to glibc-2.3.3-20040808 have lost network connectivity. E.g., I cannot SSH into any of the computers after they're updated, ping common addresses outside our LAN like www.yahoo.com or www.google.com from them, or browse the internet or check mail from them. Every one of ten computers I've updated to this version of glibc has demonstrated this behavior.

Comment 5 Gregg Casillo 2004-08-17 10:03:46 UTC

Whoops, I forgot to note that the problem goes away after a reboot.