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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


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