[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#592751: Broken on hppa; programs abort with malloc assertion failure

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:38 PM, dann frazier <dannf at dannf.org> wrote:
>> There *was* a vfork bug that was just fixed in glibc that could cause problems.
>
> Are you referring to this one?
>
>  * Add patches/hppa/cvs-vfork.diff to fix stack frame creating during
>    vfork in multithreaded environments.
>
> fwiw, we are seeing this issue on the latest eglibc, which contains
> this change.

That was the bug. However, the earlier comments in this bug indicate
it might not be vfork related.

The first step is to capture this with gdb and get a backtrace, just
like you would with any other bug. There is nothing difficult about
this, just time consuming.

Once we have a backtrace, either via a core dump, or attached gdb,
then we can talk about the likely cause.

Cheers,
Carlos.