Is there a serious NPTL problem with sarge?

2005-04-07 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, a colleague observed crashes in some heavily multi-threaded Python applications. He is running Debian sarge with stock kernel 2.6.8-2-686. Using LD_ASSUME_KERNEL fixes the crash, so it seems to be an NPTL issue. (Maybe stupid) questions: - Is it relevant, whether Python is compiled on a

Re: Is there a serious NPTL problem with sarge?

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[W. Borgert] - Is it relevant, whether Python is compiled on a system with 2.6 or 2.4 kernel? If so, how can I find out on which kernel the Debian package has been built? Might or might not be relevant - depends on whether the python build scripts attempt to detect the kernel