From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: william <william@waisse.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange freeze with VIA C7 dedicated server and libc 2.6.1
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:21:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080624102129.19d79eb0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ffbcf00806232001o4bd314f4kc590e43b4ab27076@mail.gmail.com>
> "If the kernel completely locks up then that is a kernel bug or a hardware bug.
> It shouldn't be possible to lock up the kernel, regardless of what userland
> such as glibc does. Presumably the newer glibc is doing something different
Except for bugs in glibc that trigger things happening as root which go
on to do stuff like power down the system (root is allowed to power
down/reboot/etc). That is a fairly unlikely case.
> that is triggering the bug. Regardless of what that is and whether it should be
> doing it, it shouldn't completely hang the kernel."
The first thing is to find out which glibc version is the latest that
works, which is the earliest that fails. Second is to try and find out
what apps or event is the trigger for the fail (eg can you boot into text
mode with init s and then run 2 or 3 cpu hogs all day)
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-24 3:01 william
2008-06-24 9:21 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-06-24 21:05 ` william
2008-06-24 21:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-25 16:36 ` Stefan Hellermann
2009-10-20 13:44 ` Eric des Courtis
2009-10-20 17:02 ` Stefan Hellermann
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