Re: [Xen-users] Debian XenSpecificGlibc

["Chris Fanning" <christopher.fanning@xxxxxxxxx>]

> two possibilites... you have created the initrd at a time where /lib/tls was
> activated without a special libc6 version and that's why you get this
> warning,
that was it! :)

thanks.

On 3/22/06, Ralph Passgang <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 22. März 2006 08:26 schrieb Chris Fanning:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had compiled a XenSpecificGlibc on an etch dom0. After installing it
> > on dom0 and an etch domU, the warning stopped as expected.
> >
> > Now I have installed a sarge dom0 and after installing the previously
> > compiled libc6, the warning does not go away.
> >
> > Why could this be?
>
> two possibilites... you have created the initrd at a time where /lib/tls was
> activated without a special libc6 version and that's why you get this
> warning, or the libc6 package you compiled is missing something. I think
> because glibc is older in sarge you have to patch it and not just add a
> compiler flag. But I am not a glibc maintainer and can't help you really.
>
> I hope you haven't installed the libc6 package mentioned in this thread,
> because this was only meant to be for sid and is not working as expected
> anyways...
>
> > Chris.
> >
> > On 3/21/06, Ralph Passgang <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, 21. März 2006 18:41 schrieb Goetz Bock:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 21 '06 at 18:33, Ralph Passgang wrote:
> > > > > > Why would I want a specialized glibc? What is wrong with the
> > > > > > standard one?
> > > > >
> > > > > [ ... ]
> > > > > but moving /lib/tls away is not optimal for more than one reason:
> > > > > - it's no permanent solution. You have to do this after each glibc
> > > > > upgrade on each dom0 and domU.
> > > >
> > > > Just some nitpicking here: dpkg-divert will make the move permanent.
> > > >
> > > > I use it on all my 32bit (only 4 left ;-) ) virtual domains, since i
> > > > switched to debian, as even uml needs(/needed?) it.
> > >
> > > you right, you can use dpkg-divert for this... but in my opinion this is
> > > only a hook/hack and not a really cool solutoin for the debian
> > > distribution.
> > >
> > > - diverting all files in /lib/tls doesn't handle the situation where you
> > > switching from a xenified kernel to a normal one. of couse you can
> > > have /lib/tls disabled all the time, but it's not the optimal solution.
> > >
> > > - it's not really user-firendly. having the official debian xen3 packages
> > > (which will be available in future) recommend/suggest libc6-xen is way
> > > better!
> > >
> > > - and last but definitly not least: it should bring better performance
> > > than just disabling /lib/tls completly...
> > >
> > > --Ralph
> > >
> > > p.s.: in theory the libc6-xen package should also work on uml and fix
> > > the /lib/tls problem there (because it's basicly the same issue). but I
> > > am absolutly not sure if glibc wouldn't needed to get patched addionally
> > > for also supporting/detecting uml kernels... as far as I know there is no
> > > plan to officially support uml with it's own seperate glibc-flavour.
> > >
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