From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The startup script and/or named do not support the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) According to the recommendation of "Red Hat Linux 9 Release Notes" # export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 removes the error. Secondary issues with the startup script messages are: "Starting named [OK]" not followed by \n so it is overwritten by next line. "Stopping named: " is not followed by [OK] or [FAILED] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bind-9.2.1-16 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHL 9 with minimum number of components 2. Install bind-9.2.1-16 3. Install caching-nameserver-7.2-7 4. /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start 5. /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop 6. tail /var/log/messages Actual Results: Apr 21 22:46:15 localhost named[2057]: app.c:561: unexpected error: Apr 21 22:46:15 localhost named[2057]: isc_app_shutdown() pthread_kill: No such process named service keeps running (verify using ps -ax) Expected Results: named service should stop without errors and the following console message should appear: Stopping named: [OK]
This is a known kernel problem and is fixed in the kernel errata.