On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:00:59PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote: > I am having problems with programs crashing if they execute > sub-processes. I believe the crash is happening when programs call > wait(), based on straces of the crashing programs. > > I believe this problem is libc's fault, since it started happening when > I upgraded libc. I don't upgrade very often, and yesterday I upgraded > to the latest sid libc. The libc I upgraded from was before the ds1 > series. > > I am running this Debian installation in a chroot (inside a RedHat > installation, actually), so I tried bootstrapping another sid chroot > from scratch. I get the same error; dpkg segfaults when it runs the > preinst for the first package. > > $ uname -a > Linux trimble1dhcp30.ups.edu 2.6.0-0.test6.1.49 #1 Mon Oct 6 10:15:33 EDT > 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > Any other information I can provide? Does this seem likely to be a libc > problem?
Recent versions of libc use a different syscall for waiting, iirc. What kernel is this, and can you try a stock 2.6.0-test6 or 2.6.0-test9? I've run it on both of those without problem which makes me suspect your kernel. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
