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* Re: am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel  bug.. Any news ?
@ 2003-07-15  8:34 Nicolas Turro
  2003-07-15 14:35 ` Philippe Troin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Turro @ 2003-07-15  8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, amd-dev


Hi, i posted a bug about amd hanging at boot time a few week ago,
does anybody has a fix for it ?
The bug is described here :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90902

it seems that several groups of users besides me encounter the same
bug....

If not, i'll have to post-install a 2.4.18 kernel on all my new
RH9 boxes :-(

-- 
Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr>
INRIA


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* Re: am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel  bug.. Any news ?
  2003-07-15  8:34 am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel bug.. Any news ? Nicolas Turro
@ 2003-07-15 14:35 ` Philippe Troin
  2003-07-15 16:18   ` Nicolas Turro
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Philippe Troin @ 2003-07-15 14:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nicolas Turro; +Cc: linux-kernel, amd-dev

Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> writes:

> Hi, i posted a bug about amd hanging at boot time a few week ago,
> does anybody has a fix for it ?
> The bug is described here :
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90902
> 
> it seems that several groups of users besides me encounter the same
> bug....
> 
> If not, i'll have to post-install a 2.4.18 kernel on all my new
> RH9 boxes :-(

Looks like YAFP (Yet Another Futex Problem).

Have you tried running with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 ?

Phil.

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* Re: am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel  bug.. Any news ?
  2003-07-15 14:35 ` Philippe Troin
@ 2003-07-15 16:18   ` Nicolas Turro
  2003-07-16  3:28     ` Philippe Troin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Turro @ 2003-07-15 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Philippe Troin; +Cc: linux-kernel, amd-dev

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:35, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> writes:
> 
> > Hi, i posted a bug about amd hanging at boot time a few week ago,
> > does anybody has a fix for it ?
> > The bug is described here :
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90902
> > 
> > it seems that several groups of users besides me encounter the same
> > bug....
> > 
> > If not, i'll have to post-install a 2.4.18 kernel on all my new
> > RH9 boxes :-(
> 
> Looks like YAFP (Yet Another Futex Problem).
> 
> Have you tried running with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 ?
> 
> Phil.

You are right, setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 (or
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1) corrects the problem.
Do you have more info on this ´bug'  ?

-- 
Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr>
INRIA


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* Re: am-utils or kernel bug ? Seems to be kernel  bug.. Any news ?
  2003-07-15 16:18   ` Nicolas Turro
@ 2003-07-16  3:28     ` Philippe Troin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Philippe Troin @ 2003-07-16  3:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nicolas Turro; +Cc: linux-kernel, amd-dev

Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> writes:

> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:35, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi, i posted a bug about amd hanging at boot time a few week ago,
> > > does anybody has a fix for it ?
> > > The bug is described here :
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90902
> > > 
> > > it seems that several groups of users besides me encounter the same
> > > bug....
> > > 
> > > If not, i'll have to post-install a 2.4.18 kernel on all my new
> > > RH9 boxes :-(
> > 
> > Looks like YAFP (Yet Another Futex Problem).
> > 
> > Have you tried running with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 ?
> 
> You are right, setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 (or
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1) corrects the problem.
> Do you have more info on this ´bug'  ?

As a rule of thumb, whenever a program deadlocks in a futex call,
setting this variable to a < 2.5.x value might prevent the deadlock.
Google around for the exact reason why.

AFAIU, it's a RH 9.0 bug.

Phil.

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