Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9906] New: Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF.

[Parag Warudkar]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Alejandro Riveira FernÃndez wrote:

> gcc --version
> 
> gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Ubuntu 4.2.1-5ubuntu4)
>  
> If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version.
> Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes.
>  
> Linux Varda 2.6.24 #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 25 01:05:47 CET 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
So x86+SMP+GnuC-4.1.2+Glibc-2.5 = Not reproducible.

   x86_64+SMP+PREEMPT+GnuC-4.1.2+Glibc-2.5 = Reproducible.	

Not sure what the original reporter's $ARCH was.

So next thing worthwhile to try might be to disable PREEMPT and see if 
that cures it.

Parag