Hi, On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:00:10PM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.11.2-8 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > There's apparently a bug in libc6 that causes dynamic loader to crash > in some scenarios on CPUs with AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) > support. I don't understand the bug very well, please refer to the > upstream bug report (see below) for more enlightened commentary. This > has apparently been fixed in upstream glibc. I realize squeeze is in a > freeze, but I believe this might be important enough to fix so I > decided to bring this to your attention.
It might indeed be an important bug that has to be fixed before the release. Unfortunately I don't have access to a machine with the new Core i7 to test. Could you please tell me if the bug happens very rarely or on a lot of programs. Also when it happens, is it always reproducible? > I encountered this with the package `arduino'; I just did `aptitude > install arduino; arduino' and got a crash (with openjdk). The > backtrace seems to be very similar to this glibc bug: > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12113 > > Here's what I do (the command is copied from the script > /usr/bin/arduino). The same program works on my older x86-64 without > AVX support. > I have built an eglibc package with the patch that has been committed, it is available on: http://temp.aurel32.net/eglibc-avx/ . Can you please tell me if it fixes your problem or not? -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
