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"Stable"

Posted Jun 16, 2005 16:29 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947)
Parent article: Debian Sarge Declared Stable

It seems as if the C library's NTPL implementation hasn't included fixes that have made it into other distributions, so things like Tcl and Java that use threads may have weird, random lockups, something I found out at my own expense after having to delay machines shipping to clients. The fix, luckily, is simple - don't use NPTL on Debian:

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

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"Stable"

Posted Jun 18, 2005 13:00 UTC (Sat) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

Could you please explain what fixes were not included? For some newer applications NPTL is a must and not supporting NPTL properly is a grave glibc bug that should be reported.

"Stable"

Posted Jun 18, 2005 19:18 UTC (Sat) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

Unfortunately it's a bug I ran across after the sarge release. Here is the information though:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2005/06/msg00134.html

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276312

And the original bug I reported against Tk, and our efforts to figure out what the heck was going on:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&...

Out of curiousity (how much *do* they track Debian? Are they any more responsive?) I think I'm going to check and see if Ubuntu has the same problem, report it there, and see what happens.