Florian Lohoff a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:19:43AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Florian Lohoff a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> today rem.rfc822.org once again crashed as it did on the 11th. This time >>> i captured the oops on the serial console. >> This could be related to the glibc 2.5. We have uploaded it on the 11th >> and on the 14th, but the package is still marked as building. We got no >> news from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> That seems to be coherent with the fact ld.so is mentioned in dmesg. >> Could you please verify that glibc was building at that time it crashes? >> Also if you have access at ball could you please verify the problem is >> the same on mips? > > I guess the glibc build was ongoing: > drwxr-xr-x 5 buildd buildd 4096 Apr 14 21:32 glibc-2.5/ > > I guess we have discovered some kind of kernel exploit or at least DoS > as a kernel crash based on whatever the userspace does is unacceptable. > > I was just observing the crashes and as i got more than "machine is > dead" i felt like better send it people. My hope was that Thiemo or > someone else knows about this and can tell whether this is fixed in > the current etch kernel. > >> Note that glibc 2.5-1 builds and work correctly here on both my local >> mips and mipsel machines, it builds well also on casals.debian.org. >> Maybe a kernel upgrade could fix the problem. > > Selfmade or Debian kernel ?
Well if the machine is running Etch, a 2.6.18 kernel is available. Otherwise that would probably mean a self-made kernel or an upgrade to Etch. If it does not fix the problem it could be a good idea to ask on linux-mips too. Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
