Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:05:50 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com, mb@imp.ch Subject: Re: Help needed. Deadlock in rtld makes openoffice build hang ag Message-ID: <200208072105.g77L5oMR058605@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208071543310.406-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208071543310.406-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208071543310.406-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Martin Blapp wrote: > > hi, > > > > > It must have got interrupted while in a critical section. > > > Something may have grabbed a spinlock that the thread needs > > > inside a critical section. > > > > How can I debug that ? And is this a libc_r problem or a rtld > > problem (which uses spinlocks) ? > > I don't think it's a libc_r problem. It's doing what it's > suppose to be doing. I agree, it's probably not a libc_r problem. The way the rtld does locking is less than ideal. It works for most applications, but there must be a bad interaction with OpenOffice. Unfortunately I can't give you a solution or workaround right away. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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