i386_set_ldt warnings

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Wed Oct 22 09:43:42 PDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:09:43PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, C. Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > Some (kde) applications now have a warning appear in xconsole:
> > 
> > Warning: pid 595 used static ldt allocation.
> > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info
> > Warning: pid 596 used static ldt allocation.
> > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info
> > 
> > Should I worry about that? Rebuild KDE?
> 
> Let me guess.  You are using Nividia-supplied drivers/libraries?
> 
> It won't bother you unless you want to use libkse or libthr
> for your threading library instead of libc_r.  Seeing that
> libc_r won't be the default sometime after 5.2-RELEASE, you
> might want to complain to NVidia.
> 
> Do they supply source or is it binary only?
> 

I see similar messages on the console and I do not
have a nvidia card.  By the time I find the message
the process has terminated, so I have no way of
translating the PID into an actual executable name.

-- 
Steve


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