Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:24:20PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2016-09-27 16:00, Florian Weimer wrote: > Ok. I have seen this change in 4.7.5: > > | commit bec4e55b55867ed948a3afd9f9ccf3506bfdad24 > | Author: Michal Hocko > | Date: Thu Sep 1 16:14:41 2016 -0700 > | > | 

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

On 2016-09-27 16:00, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno: > > > On 2016-09-27 13:44, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Aurelien Jarno: > >> > >> > Hmm, rsync doesn't use libpthread, so that clearly rules out a > >> > libpthread issue. That said, all the example you gave fail to allocate > >> >

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

On 2016-09-27 15:22, Fernando Santagata wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 03:10:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Fernando Santagata: > > > > >> Usually it manifests in premature OOM killer invocations, but maybe > > >> something the reporter's system configuration changes that (perhaps it >

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

* Aurelien Jarno: > On 2016-09-27 13:44, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Aurelien Jarno: >> >> > Hmm, rsync doesn't use libpthread, so that clearly rules out a >> > libpthread issue. That said, all the example you gave fail to allocate >> > the memory correctly, either through malloc (glibc) or mmap

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 03:10:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Fernando Santagata: > > >> Usually it manifests in premature OOM killer invocations, but maybe > >> something the reporter's system configuration changes that (perhaps it > >> runs with vm.overcommit_memory=2?). > > > > That's

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

* Fernando Santagata: >> Usually it manifests in premature OOM killer invocations, but maybe >> something the reporter's system configuration changes that (perhaps it >> runs with vm.overcommit_memory=2?). > > That's it. I found this in /var/log/kern.log at the time I run a program > that

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 01:44:34PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno: > > > Hmm, rsync doesn't use libpthread, so that clearly rules out a > > libpthread issue. That said, all the example you gave fail to allocate > > the memory correctly, either through malloc (glibc) or mmap

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

On 2016-09-27 13:44, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno: > > > Hmm, rsync doesn't use libpthread, so that clearly rules out a > > libpthread issue. That said, all the example you gave fail to allocate > > the memory correctly, either through malloc (glibc) or mmap (kernel) > > which returns

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

* Aurelien Jarno: > Hmm, rsync doesn't use libpthread, so that clearly rules out a > libpthread issue. That said, all the example you gave fail to allocate > the memory correctly, either through malloc (glibc) or mmap (kernel) > which returns -ENOMEM. This points to either a kernel issue, or a >

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

control: tag -1 + moreinfo control: retitle -1 libc6: memory allocation issues On 2016-09-26 14:10, Fernando Santagata wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.24-3 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > One month ago everything worked fine on my Debian sid computer. > After an

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

* Fernando Santagata: > One month ago everything worked fine on my Debian sid computer. > After an update/dist-upgrade cycle in which libc6 was updated I > started noticing some malfunctions. Did you upgrade the kernel at the same time?

Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

Package: libc6 Version: 2.24-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, One month ago everything worked fine on my Debian sid computer. After an update/dist-upgrade cycle in which libc6 was updated I started noticing some malfunctions. I couldn't use rakudobrew (the Perl6 installation program)