http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=929806
--- Comment #4 from Mel Gorman
(In reply to Mel Gorman from comment #2)
Marcus, I see you assigned this to Andreas but did you see comment 2 where it was stated that this is very likely to be a bug in the installer using uninitialised memory?
Or rpm - or any of the rpm scriptlets running code. or libzypp, or [...]
In the various tests I'd seen, the lockup was not always in the same package(s).
I think the installation scripts are a bad fit because we'd expect the same packages to freeze each time. It's also very likely that they are single-threaded which means they are unaffected by the glibc patch. rpm also feels like a bad fit because it's short-lived and I don't see calls to pthread_create in there. libzypp, zypper or the installer are better candidates because at least zypper is threaded and they're long-lived enough to eventually see an unluckly allocation pattern that gets uninitialised memory. I guessed the installer simply because zypper use on an installed system seems ok. Bugs due to uninitialised memory are not a bug in glibc though so the assignee still is inappropriate. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.