2003-07-15 14:20:44

by Philippe Troin

Subject: Re: am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel bug.. Any news ?

Nicolas Turro <[email protected]> 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 ?

Phil.

2003-07-15 16:07:38

by Nicolas Turro

Subject: Re: am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel bug.. Any news ?

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:35, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Nicolas Turro <[email protected]> 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 ?
>
> Phil.

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' ?

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Nicolas Turro <[email protected]>
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