Bug 62357

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Description of problem:
vmware is unable to start a virtual machine
vmware get 1338  getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)      = 20
1338  setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -19) = 0
1338  getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)      = 39
1338  write(2, "VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLE"..., 50) = 50


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run vmware with glibc 2.2.5-27
2.
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Actual Results:  1338  getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)      = 20
1338  setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -19) = 0
1338  getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)      = 39
1338  write(2, "VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLE"..., 50) = 50

Expected Results:  vmware should run

Additional info:


> Guillermo Payet <gpayet> wrote:
>>vmware 3.0 (build 1455) is now dead, after upgrading glibc to the latest
>>version from RedHat's RawHide. (Yes, living dangerously here)  the
offending glibc is:  glibc-2.2.5-27

This is the error I get when attempting to start a vm:

      AIO-NOT IMPLEMENTED F(831):688

 The nice() system call is failing.  You can strace -f the binary and see if
 you can learn anything, but I'm not particularly optimistic.
1338  getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)      = 20
1338  setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -19) = 0
1338  getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)      = 39
1338  write(2, "VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLE"..., 50) = 50

Presumably glibc has changed the range of priorities or something.
The behaviour doesn't match the documentation I've got for getpriority
and setpriority, which says that the return value for the last call
should be 20+-19 == 1, so I think it's a bug in this version of glibc
(in my case it's Debian libc6-2.2.5-4).  It's bug 140012
(<http://bugs.debian.org/140012>).

This problem has also cause problem in debian send along a lin to its bug base.