Re: Potential glibc 2.43 regression on big-endian targets

Adhemerval Zanella <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.sparc,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha,gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> Em 23 de ago. de 2026, à(s) 04:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> escreveu:
> 
> On Sun, 2026-08-23 at 07:12 +0100, Sam James wrote:
>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Sun, 2026-08-23 at 06:51 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2026-08-22 at 16:23 -0300, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
>>>>>> I run tests on powerpc64/powerpc32 from time to time on cfarm121 and I haven't
>>>>>> see any other than the usual regressions [1][2]. Did it started with 2.43?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, I'm quite confident that it started with 2.43.
>>> 
>>> I just noticed the following message on the kernel buffer, it might be related:
>>> 
>>> [ 1814.130181] cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /system.slice/cron.service
>> 
>> I am not seeing this yet. This sounds a bit like some system-wide limits
>> gone haywire?
>> 
>> https://serverfault.com/questions/1032747/cgroup-fork-rejected-by-pids-controller
>> mentions something like it too.
> 
> There seem to be two issues. One is processes running out of memory and the other
> is the fork issue. I was able to resolve the former by editing the corresponding
> service file, not sure about the memory issue though [1]:
> 
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): compressing tar member: lzma error: Cannot allocate memory
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): compressing tar member: lzma error: Cannot allocate memory
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): compressing tar member: lzma error: Cannot allocate memory
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): compressing tar member: lzma error: Cannot allocate memory
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): compressing tar member: lzma error: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> Adrian
> 
>> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=imagemagick&arch=sparc64&ver=8%3A7.1.2.29%2Bdfsg2-1%2Bb1&stamp=1787459818&raw=0
> 

And does it happen only on BE? Do you have a strace for the failure?
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