[R-pkg-team] Bug#915321: Mutex creation failed

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2018-12-03 00:59, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Control: unmerge -1 915339
> Control: reassign -1 r-cran-later 0.7.4+dfsg-1
> Control: retitle -1 r-cran-later: Mutex creation failed with glibc 2.28
> Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/r-lib/later/issues/77
> Control: block 915339 by -1
> Control: retitle 915339 libc6 needs Conflicts with unfixed r-cran-later
> 
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 09:11:06PM +0200, Theodore Lytras wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.28-1
> > Severity: critical
> > 
> > Just after updating libc6 from 2.27-8 to 2.28-1 in Debian Unstable, loading package "httpuv" in R leads to a crash:
> > 
> >    bones at equinox2:~$ R
> >    
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> >    > library(httpuv)
> >    terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
> >      what():  Mutex creation failed
> >    Ακυρώθηκε
> >    bones at equinox2:~$ 
> > 
> > From the message I understand this is directly related to libc6 and not R or httpuv. 
> > Also, there was no update to R or httpuv done recently. The problem started just as I updated libc6.
> >...
> 
> This seems to be a bug in r-cran-later, I'm reassigning this bug there 
> and leave another bug here for adding a Conflicts with the unfixed
> r-cran-later afterwards.

While the pointer to the bug is correct, I am not sure we need to
reassign the bug there. Nothing has to be changed in r-cran-later, it
just has to be binNMued against glibc 2.28. OTOH, we need to add a Break
on the glibc side.

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