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From: davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton)
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@timesys.com>
Subject: Re: threaded core dump oops
Date: 24 Mar 2004 13:25:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8pqa0to.fsf@dedasys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040323212448.GD2330@smtp.west.cox.net


Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> > [ Please CC replies to me - thanks! ]

> > Hi,

> > Looking around, after bumping into this bug myself I found this:

> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/0566.html

> > and was wondering if it will be going in anytime soon.  If not, is
> > there anything I can do to help?  I can reproduce the Oops
> > reliably...

> Probably in time for 2.6.6-rc1 (I'm trying to take the term "release
> candidate" seriously, at least for what I'm passing along).  A
> simple program which causes the oops would be quite helpful, too.

Well, it's not as simple as a small C program, but this will do the
job on Debian testing (*):

echo "package require Expect" | tclsh8.4

The problem is that Tcl 8.4 is threaded, Expect isn't, and something
goes wrong when Expect gets loaded into Tcl.

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(*) If no one uploads an updated Expect package anytime soon, the bad
    version is: 5.39.0-1

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-03-24 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-23 13:47 threaded core dump oops David N. Welton
2004-03-23 21:24 ` Tom Rini
2004-03-24 12:25   ` David N. Welton [this message]

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