On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:53:34PM +0100, Maelvon HAWK wrote: > Aurelien Jarno a écrit : >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:26:06PM +0100, Maelvon HAWK wrote: >>> Aurelien Jarno a écrit : >>>> Maelvon HAWK a écrit : >>>>> Aurelien Jarno a écrit : >>>>>> tag 507845 + unreproducible >>>>>> tag 507845 + moreinfo >>>>>> thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> Maelvon HAWK a écrit : >>>>>>> Package: libc6 >>>>>>> Version: 2.3.6.ds1-3 >>>>>> This is a very old version. Try using at least the latest version from >>>>>> stable, that is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7. >>>>> If I put the stable one, it freeze, with no clues… >>>>> >>>>>>> Severity: important >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've a Dedibox server, with a VIA C7 cpu, running a debian >>>>>>> ETCH, and it seems I've done a dist-upgrade without >>>>>>> rebooting that's put the mess in the server. After that it >>>>>>> freeze when it want, for no special apparent reason. I said >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> seems because I remember to have done that, and found some links about >>>>>>> that. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The actual solution I found is to downgrade my libc6, >>>>>>> specifing some preferences in /etc/apt/preferences and the >>>>>>> server is working well now, but I never update the libc6 or >>>>>>> the bug comes back. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But I've tested to install mod_python today and the libc6 >>>>>>> downgrade seems to impact it. I've done a remove of the >>>>>>> package "php5-recode" to make the mod_python running. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In the other hand, I've found a similar bug report in Gentoo >>>>>>> [1], if it can help to resolve this. >>>>>> As clearly explained in the gentoo bug report, this is not a glibc >>>>>> problem, but rather a kernel problem. The glibc may trigger a kernel >>>>>> bug, but the bug has to be fixed in the kernel. >>>>>> >>>>>> First of all, please try to use a standard Debian kernel instead of the >>>>>> kernel 2.6.24.2dedibox-r8-1-c7 one, which is known to be problematic. If >>>>>> you are still be able to reproduce the bug with a Debian kernel, I'll >>>>>> reassign the bug to the kernel package. >>>>>> >>>>> Aurelien >>>>> >>>>> Which kernel should I install. An "apt-cache search >>>>> linux-image-2.6" give me : >>>>> >>>>> linux-image-2.6-openvz-686 - Linux 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 >>>>> linux-image-2.6-vserver-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6 image on >>>>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-486 - Linux 2.6.26 image on x86 >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-686 - Linux 2.6.26 image on >>>>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6.26 image on >>>>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64 >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-openvz-686 - Linux 2.6.26 image on >>>>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4, OpenVZ support >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-vserver-686 - Linux 2.6.26 image on >>>>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4, Linux-VServer support >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-vserver-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6.26 image >>>>> on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4, Linux-VServer support >>>>> linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-xen-686 - Linux 2.6.26 image on i686 >>>>> linux-image-2.6.23.13dedibox-r8 - Linux kernel binary image for >>>>> version 2.6.23.13dedibox-r8 >>>> You should use the stable one, either: >>>> - linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 >>>> - linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 >>>> >>>> I had a dedibox with a VIA C7 CPU running the first one and glibc >>>> 2.3.6.ds1-13etchX for more than a year without any problem. >>>> >>> Ok, first freeze! >>> With the linux-image-2.6.18-6-686, what's the next step? >>> Nothing at all in the /var/log/messages. >>> >>> I'll test now the "2.6.24.2-by-myckeul"[1] kernel. >>> >>> It's a production server so I should found a solution for this bug or >>> I return to the last solution, the downgrade of libc6. >>> >> >> Now that we now it freeze with a normal kernel, the best is probably to >> determine which version introduced the change. We really have to know >> the exact version that has introduced the change, because comparing the >> sources haven't shown anything, so we will have to compare the generated >> assembly code. >> >> First of all, do you have libc6-i686 installed? If yes, it may be worth >> removing it and see if the problem still occurs. >> >> If I understand correctly, the version 2.3.6.ds1-3 is the latest known >> version that works. The stable version is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch6. That means >> there is 16 different versions in between (ds1-4 to ds1-13 and >> ds1-13etch1 to ds1-13etch6). Using a dichotomy process, you can find the >> first bad version in 4 tries. >> >> You can access the previous versions of the glibc by adding this line to >> /etc/apt/sources.list: >> >> deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool glibc >> >> then run: >> # apt-get update >> # apt-get install libc6=version libc6-dev=version locales=version >> >> When I know the first bad version, I'll try to see what has changed at >> the binary level. >> > > Aurelien, > > Thanks for your time, but I've passed to an unstable version of debian, > for libc6, and especially for the python2.5.2 library.
And how does it work? Do you still see the freezes? -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aure...@debian.org | aurel...@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
