From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 5 09:06:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5796216A4CE; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1306443D1F; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i55G61tD009958; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:06:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:06:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Tim Robbins In-Reply-To: <20040605151500.GA29569@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Sean McNeil cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: All my amd64 problems appear to be KSE X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 16:06:03 -0000 On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:22:58AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 21:06, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > > > > > > > > > I just switched over to libc_r via. libmap.conf and I no longer get any > > > > > mysterious crashes of applications in gnome. My gnome-terminals and > > > > > everything else are just fine now. > > > > > > > > How were you using libpthread? It's best to use libmap.conf > > > > to map everything to libpthread so that libc_r isn't pulled > > > > in by libraries still linked to it. > > > > > > This is a completely rebuilt machine from a working i386 install that > > > has tracked -current forever. There is absolutely nothing that is > > > compiled and pointing to libc_r. > > > > Sorry, unless you have tried using libmap to map libc_r to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > libpthread, I don't trust that. ^^^^^^^^^^ ??? This is the first thing that I would ask anyone to try, and it's very simple to do. Noone (or do we now spell it as 'no_one' ;-)) has said, "yes, I've done that and it doesn't help". > I can corroborate what Sean is saying. There is definitely something wrong > with KSE on amd64 (I haven't tried it on i386.) I've been chasing it down, > on-and-off, for about a month, but have come up with nothing so far. > gnome-terminal and xmms are two examples of applications that have gone > from unusable to usable after changing from libpthread to libc_r. Mozilla > may also be affected, but I'm less sure of that. The applications in > question just mysteriously vanish, sometimes with signal 10 or 11, sometimes > with no signal in the kernel log at all. Is it something recent that broke? Last I knew, libpthread was working on amd64 with mozilla & kde. -- Dan Eischen