glibc 2.3.4 on DEC Alpha segfaults

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:24:06AM +0200, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:50:41PM -0400, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> > glibc is segfaulting on DEC Alpha for me.
> > 
> > The last version that works is glibc-2.3.4-0.20040603.1.  The
> > later CVS versions and glibc-2.3.4-[12] fail.  gdb won't let me
> > do a backtrace (``no stack''), but I've got the following bits
> > from ltrace (strace is attached):
[...]
> > I'm not sure what's causing this--it may just be that my kernel
> > (2.6.11) isn't configured for NPTL (glibc-2.3.4-[12].alpha uses
> > NPTL, right?), or something easy.
> 
> glibc 2.3.4-[12] uses NPTL "where available" (i.e. on 2.6.x kernels) and
> linuxthreads otherwise (when run on 2.4.x kernel).
> 
> There may be some problem with NPTL - I didn't test such configuration
> as I have only 2.4.2x on alpha. dillo runs fine on glibc-2.3.4-1 with
> linuxthreads. You can try it on 2.6.x by exporting
> "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.6" (and eventually use it as workaround until real
> fix comes).

There were some NPTL problems indeed, even simple threaded programs
segfaulted.
Could you try glibc-2.3.5-0.3 from ac-test?

(if you are using poldek 0.18 - I advise to upgrade to 0.18.8-4 from
ac-test before upgrading glibc to 2.3.5 - previous versions can read
indexes in infinite time when run on glibc 2.3.5).


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Jakub Bogusz    http://cyber.cs.net.pl/~qboosh/