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  1. Bug #18012
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Comment 1 for bug 18012

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In , Stefan Praszalowicz (stefan-avedya) wrote : libc6: Fix pthread_rwlock_wrlock hang with nptl

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Severity: critical
Tags: patch
Justification: breaks unrelated software

This bug is being reported on
- redhat: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2004-02/msg00019.html
- ubuntu: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11730
- mysql: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8555

The bug makes MySQL hang when using NPTL - it's a very serious issue, but it
seems it's been reported a _long_ while ago.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2004-02/msg00019.html contains a
patch

I'm currently waiting to put 2 enormous 4 Xeon EM64T w/ 32G ram in production
because of this bug :| Needless to say, please patch ;p

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl

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