Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:53:49 -0600
From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Time to put ${PTHREAD_LIBS} in the x11/xscreensaver-gnome?
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:24:21 -0600
Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:58:42 +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov
> <bland@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 23:42, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:46:28 +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov
> >>>> <bland@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> <snip>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Well to be constructive can people (not only once who currently
> >>>>> expirince a problem with xscreensaver) try the patch attached and
> >>>>> report
> >>>>> two things is: it works and what is your GL library Nvidia/Mesa?
> >>>>>
> >>>> I tried this patch and it doesn't fix the crash. Here using Nvidia
> >>>> driver.
> >>>>
> >>> Jeremy, I looked into your ldd output and it same to mine. There is no
> >>> any single object linked against libc_r, libthr, libkse or libpthread.
> >>> Can this be world + kernel problem?
> >>> About the patch. Its purpose not link GL hacks against libpthread.
> >>> They don't use any pthreads api so why we need this?
> >>>
> >>
> >> The problem isn't with the -demo binary, but with the hacks that the
> >> binary loads. On my -CURRENT system, libGL is linked to libpthread, and
> >> so are my GL-based hacks:
> >>
> > /me confused and feels like missed something important...
>
> Indeed, so I am.. :-)
>
> > Wich crash we talking about than? xscreensaver-demo use fork() & exec()
> > for hack preview. GL hack crash should not affect xscreensaver-demo. If
> > I remove libmapping for GL hacks they start coredump but still have no
> > problem with selecting/previewing/using another non-GL hack.
> >
> > I was always thinking about this:
> >
> > hilton>$ xscreensaver-demo
> > xscreensaver-demo: 12:32:45: error closing
> > "/usr/home/stephenh/.xscreensav
> > er": Bad file descriptor
> > xscreensaver-demo: too early for dialog?
> > Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file
> > /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0)
> > Abort trap (core dumped)
> > hilton>$
This was the error message on my 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 system, not CURRENT.
> >
> >
> > Jeremy, can you try let's say /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-hacks/glmatrix
> > from cli?
>
> Actually, the screensavers work fine but I just can't run that
> xscreensaver-demo w/out ${PTHREAD_LIBS}. It's how I caught
> xscreensaver-demo crashed, because I want to disable the screensaver when
> I noticed that screensaver was enabled. See my old thread (around three
> weeks ago)...
Same here, did not know there was a problem till I tried to change my
screensaver settings with xscreensaver-demo.
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-gnome/2004-March/005480.html
> ================================
> [...]
> Strange, I don't see anything wrong with ldd. It's weird that the
> screensaver, itself does work fine but I just can't run that
> xscreensaver-demo.
> ================================
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>
> >> ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-hacks/glplanet
> >> glplanet:
> >>
> > ...
> >
> >> libintl.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6 (0x2857b000)
> >> libstdc++.so.4 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.4 (0x28584000)
> >>
> >> I bet if you rebuilt xscreensaver without GL support, it would work
> >> fine. I think adding PTHREAD_LIBS to the build may be the obly way to
> >> fix this for libpthread users.
> >>
> > Ideally if libmap works correct they (libc_r users) should not see any
> > difference. My problem is I still do not understand what we going to
> > fix. I feel like something but not xscreensaver problem.
> >
> >> Of course, as a test, you might try libmapping libthread to libc_r, and
> >> see if you can reproduce this, Alexander. I can try the same thing. I
> >> know I can.
> >>
> > This is what I doing all the time to let GL hacks play. I will try to
> > switch back to stock nv driver and MesaGL library later today the only
> > combination I did not test.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Alexander.
> >
> >> Joe
>
>
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