Re: git-daemon hangs in futex()

From: Johan Sørensen <johan@johansorensen.com>
Date: Feb 29, 2008, 14:26 UTC
Message-ID: <9e0f31700802290626o22ffea7bj6a2410a860f75b1b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e0f31700802281441i33120d70s43ca9f4eced6b5c3@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Johan Sørensen <johan@johansorensen.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>  I'm having an issue with my git-daemon (1.5.4.3 on ubuntu gutsy), it
>  works fine for a few minutes, then it hangs (eg, "git clone git://"
>  never comes past "initialized empty git repo" adnd just sits and
>  waits) and strace on the git-daemon says:
>  $ strace -Ff -p 27453
>  Process 27453 attached - interrupt to quit
>  futex(0x2b270fb50980, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
>
>  .. and nothing more. But, if I attach to the git-daemon process with
>  strace before that happens, git-daemon keeps on working fine, so I can
>  change the outcome by observing it which is always nice, but not too
>  helpful.

Upon further investigation, it seems that this could be related to me updating glibc to 2.6.1. Google suggest that it can because libc switched to NPTL. I'm not familiar with the internals of it, so I can't decide if this is a git issue (by indirect usage of glibc functions) or not?

Thanks JS