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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2004 22:32:13 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thread library stuff with gaim .77 (yes, I read UPDATING)
Message-ID:  <20040525053213.GB89377@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040525051016.GA24353@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
References:  <20040525051016.GA24353@ack.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:10:16PM -0700, Mike Hunter wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I recently upgraded gaim (always a mistake it seems :( ) and I can't get
> it to start up anymore.
>=20
> % gaim
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno =3D 0)
> Abort trap (core dumped)
>=20
> I've read /usr/src/UPDATING, and I tried the suggestion about switching
> the thread libraries.  When I tried that, gaim worked but Firefox stopped
> functioning :(  When I tried to rebuild firefox, it gave me a **build
> error** complaining about an assertion failure and threading.
>=20
> When I try to only have the UPDATING change apply for gaim as follows:
>=20
> [/usr/X11R6/bin/gaim]
> libc_r.so.5             libpthread.so.1
> libc_r.so               libpthread.so
>=20
> It still gives the same error message as above.
>=20
> So my main point of confusion is that I can't seem to make the thread
> change apply only to gaim :(  Some library gaim uses perhaps?

Yes, probably some other swhared library.

> Also, rebuilding gaim didn't help...even portupgrade -r -f gaim.

Use the libchk port to look for things linked to libc_r, and rebuild them.

Kris

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