Bug 109768

Summary: floating point exception on startup of binary built on previous version of kernel
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jared Harper <jharper>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 9CC: fweimer
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-11-11 14:20:26 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Attachments:
Description Flags
core file of crash none

Description Jared Harper 2003-11-11 17:38:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
ld-2.3.2.so crashes with a divide by zero FPE during startup.  My 
call stack is

allocate_static_tls()
_dl_relocate_object_internal()
dl_main()
_dl_sysdep_start()
_dl_start()


If I set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 then the binary will run without the 
FPE.  This same binary will run on RH AS 2.1 (if I copy some 
libraries versions that are missing), RH 8, SuSE 8, 8.2.  I have not 
been able to try AS 3.0 yet.

NOTE: I have another application, built exactly the same, and that 
application will run without the FPE.  I can send a core file if that 
helps.  Since I never enter my application, I have not been able to 
get very far in debugging this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.3.2
ld-2.3.2

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1.gwmta -show
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Floating point exception

Expected results:
Application should start and display a splash screen, then exit

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2003-11-11 17:40:17 UTC 
Please try ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/glibc/errata/2.3.2-27.9.4/
Comment 2 Jared Harper 2003-11-11 18:02:54 UTC 
I have just finished updating to 2.3.2-27.9 and the problem still 
exists.  I there something in 2.3.2-27.4 that is not in 27.9 that is 
worth back rev'ing.
Comment 3 Jakub Jelinek 2003-11-11 18:05:01 UTC 
It is not 27.4 but 27.9.4 and there are several bugfixes for TLS
handling.  This is a RHL9 errata candidate.
Comment 4 Jared Harper 2003-11-11 18:32:15 UTC 
No change in behavior with the 27.9.4
Comment 5 Jared Harper 2003-11-15 02:44:36 UTC 
Created attachment 95990 [details]
core file of crash
Comment 6 Jakub Jelinek 2004-10-07 10:59:48 UTC 
Are you still able to reproduce this with Fedora Core 3 test2
glibc?  If yes, please provide a self-contained testcase.
Comment 7 Jakub Jelinek 2004-10-07 11:00:24 UTC 
*** Bug 109770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Jakub Jelinek 2004-11-11 14:20:26 UTC 
Without a testcase there is nothing to do.