Description of problem: Fresh rawhide install from July 31st-ish; booting the 2.6.17-1.2488.fc6xen kernel on a P3, there is an absolutely *huge* amount of dmesg spam. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@trash ~]# rpm -q kernel-xen kernel-xen-2.6.17-1.2488.fc6 [root@trash ~]# grep -c 'messages suppressed' /var/log/messages 8661 [root@trash ~]# grep -c '4gb seg fixup' /var/log/messages 8671 [root@trash ~]# [root@trash ~]# dmesg | tail printk: 824 messages suppressed. 4gb seg fixup, process pcscd (pid 1915), cs:ip 73:0018eff2 printk: 485 messages suppressed. 4gb seg fixup, process pcscd (pid 1915), cs:ip 73:0018eff2 printk: 3764 messages suppressed. 4gb seg fixup, process sshd (pid 28762), cs:ip 73:00a25ff2 printk: 41717 messages suppressed. 4gb seg fixup, process pcscd (pid 1915), cs:ip 73:0018eff2 printk: 1519 messages suppressed. 4gb seg fixup, process pcscd (pid 1915), cs:ip 73:0018eff2
This can only happens with a very old libc. And both sshd & pcscd. It looks as if your ld.so is very confused. Please, send the output of: /proc/1915/maps where 1915 are the pid's of the process that are giving you trouble.
This is a fresh Raw Hide install as I said, so the *age* of glibc cannot be an issue. But this box seems to have the .i386 glibc installed rather than the .i686 one and I presume that would also explain the problem. I'll reassign to anaconda.
Something is pretty odd here. jorton@trash:~$ rpm -q glibc openssl glibc-2.4.90-15.i386 openssl-0.9.8b-4.1.i686
This might actually be fixed by a fix I committed to upstream yum the other day, but it's probably worth double checking once we have yum 2.9.4 in a tree
anaconda seems to DTRT now, thanks. But an @Everything install is still getting a whole lot of "seg fixup" spam with the xen kernel. jorton@trash:~$ rpm -q kernel glibc kernel-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6.i686 glibc-2.4.90-29.i686 jorton@trash:~$ uname -a Linux trash.cambridge.redhat.com 2.6.17-1.2630.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed Sep 6 17:22:21 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux printk: 529161 messages suppressed. 4gb seg fixup, process beagle-build-in (pid 4175), cs:ip 73:00476ed1 ... 4gb seg fixup, process prelink (pid 28398), cs:ip 73:08084338 printk: 107 messages suppressed.
Some apps do TLS bits themselves and so trigger the need for the fixup