Latest FC kernel still have SMP bugs?

[Herbert Gasiorowski]

Nigel Wade wrote:
> Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:
> 
>>> I've built the RHEL3 kernel on FC1 and run the system up using this. 
>>> Ordinary ldap requests seem quite happy, but I'm still seeing the 
>>> futex lock problem with nss_ldap. E.g. when I add 'hosts: files ldap 
>>> dns' to /etc/nsswitch.conf I get:
>>>
>>> # strace ping host
>>> munmap(0xb75ff000, 4096)                = 0
>>> uname({sys="Linux", node="hostname", ...}) = 0
>>> futex(0x53e4ec, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL
>>>
>>> Setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 cures this particular problem, but 
>>> isn't a solution for a system relying on LDAP for all authentication 
>>> and NSS functions.
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem remains in FC2 (Test 3) with the 2.6 kernel!
>>
>> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 seems to cure at least "ping host"
>>
>>
> 
> This is in some way related to nscd.
> 
> If nscd isn't running hosts don't resolve using LDAP. AFAIK, nscd should 
> not be compulsory.
> 

Thanks, this seems to solve my problem and finally I managed to install nscd!

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mfg
Herbert Gasiorowski
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gasi/