From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 7 14: 6: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167A937B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E988A43E6E for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:05:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g77L5pf14502; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g77L5oMR058605; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208072105.g77L5oMR058605@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com, mb@imp.ch Subject: Re: Help needed. Deadlock in rtld makes openoffice build hang ag In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Daniel Eischen 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