From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: we have two boxes which run a custom application. both boxes have the same kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp. one of them is spewing errors into /var/log/messages as follows: May 2 17:08:54 sblah kernel: application bug: ourapplication(29640) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait(). May 2 17:08:54 sblah kernrl: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated. i cannot determine why one has the errors and the other does not. any input would be greatly appreciated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run our application on box b Actual Results: same errors. Expected Results: no errors. Additional info:
A fix for this problem was committed to the RHEL3 U5 patch pool on 14-Jan-2005 (in kernel version 2.4.21-27.8.EL). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140552 ***
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-294.html