Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel bug.. Any news ? | From | Philippe Troin <> | Date | 15 Jul 2003 20:28:47 -0700 |
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Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> writes:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:35, Philippe Troin wrote: > > Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> writes: > > > > > Hi, i posted a bug about amd hanging at boot time a few week ago, > > > does anybody has a fix for it ? > > > The bug is described here : > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90902 > > > > > > it seems that several groups of users besides me encounter the same > > > bug.... > > > > > > If not, i'll have to post-install a 2.4.18 kernel on all my new > > > RH9 boxes :-( > > > > Looks like YAFP (Yet Another Futex Problem). > > > > Have you tried running with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 ? > > You are right, setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 (or > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1) corrects the problem. > Do you have more info on this ´bug' ?
As a rule of thumb, whenever a program deadlocks in a futex call, setting this variable to a < 2.5.x value might prevent the deadlock. Google around for the exact reason why.
AFAIU, it's a RH 9.0 bug.
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