Re: "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)

[Andrew Lofthouse <loftyhauser at gmail dot com>]

Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> > I'm going to be getting a bunch of spam, now, huh?
>
> This wasn't the first message so quoted.

No, it was the first I noticed though.

> I find gmail spam filtering to be extremely effective:
> I only get about 1 spam/month through.

Thanks goodness for that--I haven't noticed any increase in my spam 
count since I posted theses messages.  Hopefully it will stay that way.

> > > One thing that may have changed is prelink addresses --
> > > IIRC, Fedora runs prelink at 2 week intervals.
> > Okay, it must have been prelink.
>
> Indeed. I did '/usr/sbin/prelink -ua', and now I can reproduce
> this on the thread-so test case (with 32-bit kernel).
>
> Reproduces with current GDB CVS head...
>
> The problem is a (now almost 3 year old) bug in glibc:
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2328
> for which a patch has been available for 2 years, but came
> from the "wrong" person :-(

Good.  At least we know what the problem is (and there is a solution). 
In the mean-time, I have a temporary work-around.

Thanks again for the help!

Regards,

Andrew L.