I saw a new kernel for FC6, so I did a quick install and test on my x86_64 (SMP) box. With 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 we have the following failures in frysk-imports/tests FAIL: frysk3491/x-state According to http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3491: "So the kernel test needs adjusting, and a lot more comments, and the correspnding testTerm might need a re-think." FAIL: frysk3595/detach-multi-thread http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3595 says RESOLVED/FIXED, but if it is then the fix never made it to the upstream Fedora kernel. FAIL: frysk3997/ptrace_step_sig Pushed upstream as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227693 which says: Happens on vanilla 2.6.18.6 from kernel.org, too Does not happen on 2.6.16.35 Since we confirmed it also on 2.6.19 this seems to be a long term regression. Note that it might be less severe than it looks since this is only when stepping through a SIGTRAP handler, but there are real programs that install those themselves and don't like them being reset by a ptrace-step (and it makes debugging a pain!) There is also a spurious kernel message seen: Message from syslogd@dijkstra at Thu Feb 15 11:00:39 2007 ... dijkstra kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP PASS: process/single_exec