On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:33:49 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 06:04:47PM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:36:45 -0500 > > Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hazel Russman wrote: > > > > > > > I have now tried this out on all the systems I run on this machine. The > > > > results are as follows: > > > > OS Coreutils terminal result > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > Debian 8.13 xterm exits > > > > Crux 8.24 xterm hangs > > > > LFS7.7 8.23 console exits > > > > LFS7.7 8.23 xterm hangs > > > > LFS7.7 8.24 console exits > > > > LFS7.7 8.24 xterm hangs > > > > LFS7.8 (chroot) 8.24 console exits > > > > LFS7.8 (chroot) 8.24 xterm hangs > > > > > > > > You can see that version 8.13 of coreutils does not have this bug. > > > > 8.23 and 8.24 both have it, but only when running in an xterm (and > > > > 8.23 did not have those tests so it wouldn't have shown up). Did you > > > > perhaps do your runs in a virtual console? > > > > > > I run almost everything over ssh, but I went to my development system > > > and ran it in both konsole and xterm on an xfce system and it worked > > > properly for me. > > > > > > Another wild guess -- a difference in kernel config? > > > > > > -- Bruce > > > > Well, it must have something to do with devices. It might be significant > > that Crux and LFS are the systems that have home-made kernels; the Debian > > one is stock. What settings should I be looking for? A whole kernel config > > file is a bit big to post. > > > > It would be interesting if a few other people could try this -- see if they > > agree with you or with me. > > > > Hazel > > I've built 7.8-rc (as it was) four times on real hardware, all > x86_64. In each case, my logs show: > > PASS: tests/misc/seq-precision.sh > > I did not keep a note of what sort of term I was using (didn't think > I'd be asked :) but probably all were using rxvt-unicode - for the > server, that was over ssh from a desktop box. > > The desktops were variously: from 7.7, from 7.8 (a second system on > my test box), from June svn. The server build was from 7.6. > > In the desktop boxes I put a new kernel on the host (similar to what > I'm going to build for LFS - to try to find out any kernel problems > before I build the new system) and use that. For the server, I am > using a 4.1.8 kernel and the old 7.6 system had already moved to > 4.1.1. > > At the moment, google is only finding this thread, and Frans de > Boer's report from July - > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lfs.support/40574 and > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2015-07/msg00380.html > but of course it is possible that few people have run the tests. > > Sorry I can't add anything useful. > Those refs look spot on to me. I wonder why I couldn't find them! Unfortunately they don't include any explanations. Unlike you I build with the normal host kernel, which is 3.19 in this case. I've diffed it with the corresponding kernel from Anduin (not the one in Bruce's link, which is the later version) and I'm attaching the result to this post. I hope your majordomo honours attachments. Hazel
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