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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:17:24 +0100
From: Liam Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:13:39 -0500
Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:

> In the last episode (Jun 16), Liam Foy said:
> > Hey guys, I seen to get this error on certain applications, such as
> > xmms and beep-media-player:
> > 
> > Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> That means that the program was linked with two threading libraries
> (usually libc_r and libpthread), and unfortunately, they are not smart
> enough to only initialize one or the other so they step on each others'
> data.  Run "ldd -a" on your binary, determine which file depends on
> libc_r, and rebuild the port providing that file.
> 
> A workaround would be to add a libmap.conf entry remapping libc_r to
> libpthread globally.  See the libmap.conf manpage for examples.
> 
Thats great, I shall have a look into that. Is anyone working to try
and solve this issue to do you know?
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com

-Liam J. Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>