Paul Brook wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 23:14, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
>   
>> Ok, then I'm confused because I'm seeing dumps just trying to run a null
>> program.  Unless there's NPTL setup stuff in crt0, I can't guess what
>> might be going on yet.  This same null binary runs on a qemu-system with
>> suitable rootfs & kernel.
>>     
> The glibc startup code contains TLS initialisation that will fail on unpatched 
> qemu. If you have applied the TLS patch there are a couple of other things 
> that could cause problems:
>
> - Make sure it's picking up the correct target shared libraries (or link your 
> test application statically).
>   
Done.
> - Try configuring qemu with --static. The default (building qemu as a shared 
> library) seems to cause strange problems on many systems.
>   
Done.
> - Make sure uname -r reports at least 2.6.16 (qemu can lie for you).
>   
Ah.  Hm..  ubuntu-5 is currently:

rpixley@svrpixleylnx> uname -a
Linux svrpixleylnx 2.6.12-10-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 18 23:03:01 UTC 2006 
i686 GNU/Linux

Do you know why 2.6.16 would be required?  (I'll see if I can't 
find/build a 2.6.16 system on which to try it today.)

--rich