caution with latest kernel + glibc

David Nielsen gnomeuser at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 19:40:33 UTC 2006


søn, 05 02 2006 kl. 09:40 -0800, skrev Ulrich Drepper:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> > Would this explain why I appear to loose net connection periodically (on
> > i386) following the latest update to glibc ?
> 
> No.  The effects of the bug are that filesystem operations block without
> ever recovering.  If a popular partition is affected the whole system
> will come to a standstill).

It turned out after a bit of debugging effort to be the router that was
behaving badly. 

- David

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