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cc: Adam Bozanich <abozan01@ccsf.edu>
Subject: Re: gaim error
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On Thursday 25 March 2004 07:26 pm, Adam Bozanich wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Simon Barner wrote:
> > The output of something like
> >
> >   pkg_info | grep gaim
> >
> > is usually more helpful, since it also shows the version of the
> > FreeBSD port you are using.
>
> Sorry about that....
>
> adam@voyage% gaim
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file
> /mnt/s10/BSD/usr_src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> zsh: abort      gaim
> adam@voyage% pkg_info| grep gaim
> gaim-0.75_8         Gtk+-2.0 open-source 'clone' of AOL's Instant
> Messenger cli
>
>
> I haven't had time to look into Michael's suggestions, maybe I'll
> give it a go tonight.
>

This problem comes up from the pthread change to 5.x. There are a number 
of fixes that have been discussed on -current. Do a mailman web search 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=spinlock&max=25&sort=score&index=recent&source=freebsd-current

Kent

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