[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#741075: user-mode-linux: Occasional memory corruption on startup under high load

[Anton Ivanov]

Package: user-mode-linux
Version: 3.2-2um-1+deb7u2+b1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

Dear Maintainer,

This bug is perennial. If we go through old bugs with
"cannot reproduce" tag 50% of them are this one, the other
50% are the "you should not use pipe for interprocess IPC" 
which we will submit shortly.

Manifestation of the problem - UML dies on startup for no
reason with a memory corruption message. Occurs only on 
heavily loaded systems and usually when running a lot of 
UMLs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages user-mode-linux depends on:
ii  libc6          2.13-38
ii  uml-utilities  20070815-1.1-ai-1.8

user-mode-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages user-mode-linux suggests:
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.4.1.1-2
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator]         4:4.8.4-2
pn  rootstrap                             <none>
pn  slirp                                 <none>
pn  user-mode-linux-doc                   <none>
pn  vde2                                  <none>
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.4.8-1+b1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           278-4

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