>> Vince Berk pointed out what appears to be a thread issue with uml. >> The "host" command, part of the bind-utils package, uses threads and crashes >> when asked to do anything more complex than show its help screen: >> >> -bash-3.1# rpm -q bind-libs bind-utils >> bind-libs-9.3.3-0.1.rc3.fc6 >> bind-utils-9.3.3-0.1.rc3.fc6 >> -bash-3.1# host www.google.com. >> Segmentation fault I believe Jeff is debugging some of these issues. Thanks for the test case though, couldn't be more simple!
>> The problem is completely reproducible; the root filesystem and >> kernel at http://ford.stearns.org/uml/ give a crash every time you actually >> try to look something up with "host". >> Should I be talking to the glibc folks about this? I don't think so, it is probably just a TLS issue in UML. > As a side note, if I try to bypass thread support per the > instructions at http://dag.wieers.com/howto/compatibility/ , I get a > different error (following is with stock "host"): > > -bash-3.1# LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 host www.google.com > host: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > -bash-3.1# export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 > -bash-3.1# strace -f host www.google.com. > strace: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory I think that's because glibc 2.5 does not support kernel 2.4, it only supports nptl (unfortunately). Antoine ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
