SOURCES: util-linux-2.12q-use-update_mtab-for-fake.patch (NEW) - C...

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 23:43, Marcin Król wrote:
> > Author: glen                         Date: Wed Sep 21 16:59:39 2005 GMT
> > Module: SOURCES                       Tag: HEAD
> > ---- Log message:
> > - CAN-2005-2876; patch taken from gentoo portage
> >
> > ---- Files affected:
> > SOURCES:
> >    util-linux-2.12q-use-update_mtab-for-fake.patch (NONE -> 1.1)  (NEW)
>
> As it was reported on pld-users-pl after upgrading mount to 2.12q-4
> system is not booting anymore. It hangs right after remounting root fs
> for read/write. Error message says:
>
> ***glibc detected*** double free of corruption (!prev): 0x0805ba58 ***
>
> And only cold boot works.
enable sysrq and panic=20 kernel cmdline option perhaps for soft ones.

> The only thing which has changed between release 3 and 4 is
> util-linux-2.12q-use-update_mtab-for-fake.patch. I'm not familiar with
> util-linux sources, but I see two more patches in gentoo which are
> fixing similiar problems (util-linux-2.12q-more-fake-checks-v2.patch,
> util-linux-2.12q-update_mtab-fixes.patch). Maybe they're required too (I
> can't check it mysefl right now)? Or maybe we should use patch from FC4
> instead (its different)? Anyway, this should be fixed ASAP.
can't reproduce it, so just applied the mentioned patches, please give it a 
try yourself? also sent util-linux to test builders.

-- 
glen