So, I've been going around the hallways lately, pointing at people and
saying "Hey! Futex buddy!"
Doing distribution testing when the rpm command stalls on the futex
syscall every 1/3 to 1/4 times you use it where a reboot is apparently
needed to make rpm work again at all is really, really irritating. I'd be
happy to lend whatever help I can debug this if there's a person out there
working on it. Bugzillas 85279 and 85429 are still open, the problem
persists on:
kernel-smp-2.4.20-2.48
glibc-2.3.1-46
rpm-4.2-0.66
...that I upgraded my test system to late last week.
[ The symptoms of needing a reboot to clear it appears to me to be a bug
with the kernel's handling of thread lock contention but I haven't
really dug into it yet and could be completely wrong. ]
The 8.1 distribution cannot hit the streets with this bug - this is a
show stopper.
Is it intentional for perl-DBI to depend on on mod_perl (and therefore
apache)? That seems a little ridiculous. I'll probably change it in my
in-house distro but am sort of wondering if that will go away on its own.
Speaking of hitting the streets, I know its an anathema to provide actual
release schedules - and I agree with that policy. Are the rumors of this
being ready kinda April'ish or early May'ish sorta - kinda - without
actually committing - likely to be the case? Thanks.
Rob
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