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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet.com>
To: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: libthr.so lib - crashes
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Alexander Kabaev wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:50:27 +0100
> Bruno Afonso <brunomiguel@dequim.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm using -current from monday and I'm having a lot of crashes on my 
> > athlon 2.4+. So far, I've had to stop using it with mozilla 1.4b, 
> > FireBird and now it seems to crash pymol too. (python based)
> > I think it's libth library as I don't get crashes without libthr :)
> > 
> > How can I help you guys with this? Am I the only one having problems 
> > with these apps (ok, pymol is not widely used)?
> > 
> > The crash simply "locks" the apps, and one can only kill it. There's
> > not way to "normally" close it.
> 
> Just from the top of my head:
> 
> Drop into ddb and run look what 'ps' command reports for the stuck
> process. Do a 'trace <pid>' in DDB and see what a kernel backtrace looks
> like. Use gencore to grab a core of the process to see  it's userland
> backtrace. Send all of the above to relevant people and/or threads@
> mailing list.

Yes, and can you try libkse also?  We thread-weenies like to hear
about both libraries ;-)

-- 
Dan Eischen