trying to understand what's going on with timers and boot process

Carlos O'Donell carlos@systemhalted.org
Tue Jul 1 14:26:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mark Seger <Mark.Seger@hp.com> wrote:
> My issue is I have an open source program that is dependent on HiRes and is
> being distributed on Fedora 10 and I fear I'm going to start getting a lot
> of support requests over this.  I do intend to release a new version that
> checks the version of glibc (I recently discovered I could just run
> /lib/libc.6.so and it tells me its version) and warn people when there is a
> problem, but I'm still stumped with the fact that I've only seen errors on
> 2.5 systems during boot.  Can someone shed any light on what I'm seeing?
>  Should I be worrying about ALL versions of glibc > 2.3?

The first step is to develop a pure-C test case. Without a test case
it's going to be very hard to debug your problem.

Do you have a test case?

Cheers,
Carlos.



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