From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Tom Rini Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Greg Weeks Subject: Re: threaded core dump oops References: <87zna7fzfv.fsf@dedasys.com> <20040323212448.GD2330@smtp.west.cox.net> From: davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton) Date: 24 Mar 2004 13:25:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87y8pqa0to.fsf@dedasys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Tom Rini 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. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ (*) If no one uploads an updated Expect package anytime soon, the bad version is: 5.39.0-1 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/