Re: Release Sched and futex bug
M A Young <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.phoebe |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Patrick E Kane wrote: > > We've found one problem with rpm and SIGPIPE. If you do something > > like "rpm -qa | /bin/true" as root, you'll get a stale lock. You'll > > also get stale locks any time you use SIGKILL or any other > > terminating, non-catchable signal on rpm (of course). > > Is that problem related to the Native POSIX Thread Library > issues that are describe in the 8.0.94/RELEASE-NOTES file? I doubt it. It sounds like it is more to do with not catching every signal, which is a programming issue. > If so, that doc says that the workaround is to either set > "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" or boot with the option "nosysinfo" Note "nosysinfo" was broken in a lot of phoebe kernels, so you need kernel version 2.4.20-2.49 or later to use it. Michael Young -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list