strange mysql bug, possibly thread related

[Konstantinos Koukopoulos]

On Mon 05 Dec 2005 13:46, Petr Salinger wrote:
> > I've installed libc 2.3.1+kbsd.13 (alongside kfreebsd-image 5.4-8)
> > and mysql works ok.
> > Indeed, and amavis=>clamd works, too :)
>
> I played with it and the reason seems related to
> thread signaling AND setuid()/setgid() calls.
>
> Robin, Konstantinos, please, can you test to change
> user of mysql and clamd to root ?
> After that, it should work with latest glibc.
>
> Given it helps also for you:

Tested running mysql as user root and indeed it works with the latest 
libc/kernel combination.