Re: glibc causing crashes in most anything that does DNS lookups in F16
Dne 9.8.2011 00:24, Adam Williamson napsal(a): A bit of detective work led to: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24615 apparently Arch has been seeing the same thing. They've addressed it by reverting the following upstream glibc commit: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=4769ae77fc6c8dacea6476addb015c8797848cdd Do you know whether there is a bug filed for it in RH BZ? Firefox is still crashing for me all the time (both Fedora and the upstream binary). Surprisingly, Google Chrome seems to be unaffected by this. Weird. Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: mceplatceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. -- Winston Churchill, 1930 smime.p7s Description: Elektronický podpis S/MIME -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: glibc causing crashes in most anything that does DNS lookups in F16
2011/8/19 Matěj Cepl mc...@redhat.com: Dne 9.8.2011 00:24, Adam Williamson napsal(a): A bit of detective work led to: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24615 apparently Arch has been seeing the same thing. They've addressed it by reverting the following upstream glibc commit: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=4769ae77fc6c8dacea6476addb015c8797848cdd Do you know whether there is a bug filed for it in RH BZ? Firefox is still crashing for me all the time (both Fedora and the upstream binary). Surprisingly, Google Chrome seems to be unaffected by this. Weird. Do you have IPv6, I wonder if its somehow related to that. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: glibc causing crashes in most anything that does DNS lookups in F16
Dne 19.8.2011 14:06, Peter Robinson napsal(a): Do you have IPv6, I wonder if its somehow related to that. I haven't disabled it, but the turtle doesn't dance, so it is not configured. Matěj -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: glibc causing crashes in most anything that does DNS lookups in F16
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 15:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. So lately Firefox has been crashing a ton for me on F16 (and Evolution's been disappearing silently too - bet it's the same cause). Today I fired it up from a console and found out what the error was: __libc_res_nquery: Assertion `hp != hp2' failed. then I tried to use Epiphany for a bit and found it was crashing on exactly the same error! A bit of detective work led to: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24615 apparently Arch has been seeing the same thing. They've addressed it by reverting the following upstream glibc commit: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=4769ae77fc6c8dacea6476addb015c8797848cdd I've just built an F16 glibc with that reversion to test locally, haven't installed it yet. Just wanted to flag this up and see if anyone else has seen the same thing, and whether we should just revert the change in Fedora, fix it, deal with upstream or what... I suspect it may be a _bit_ more complicated than 'any failed DNS query invariably causes app to crash in all situations', as I'd have expected a bit more of an outcry. But I'm certainly getting a ton of crashes here. It may depend a little on exact DNS server configuration or something. So Shawn Starr mentioned on IRC that his Firefox was crashing a ton in F16, and sure enough, when I asked him to run from a console, turned out he was hitting this. He found an upstream report with a patch: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13013 it'd be great if we could get that into Fedora glibc. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
glibc causing crashes in most anything that does DNS lookups in F16
Hey, folks. So lately Firefox has been crashing a ton for me on F16 (and Evolution's been disappearing silently too - bet it's the same cause). Today I fired it up from a console and found out what the error was: __libc_res_nquery: Assertion `hp != hp2' failed. then I tried to use Epiphany for a bit and found it was crashing on exactly the same error! A bit of detective work led to: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24615 apparently Arch has been seeing the same thing. They've addressed it by reverting the following upstream glibc commit: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=4769ae77fc6c8dacea6476addb015c8797848cdd I've just built an F16 glibc with that reversion to test locally, haven't installed it yet. Just wanted to flag this up and see if anyone else has seen the same thing, and whether we should just revert the change in Fedora, fix it, deal with upstream or what... I suspect it may be a _bit_ more complicated than 'any failed DNS query invariably causes app to crash in all situations', as I'd have expected a bit more of an outcry. But I'm certainly getting a ton of crashes here. It may depend a little on exact DNS server configuration or something. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
