Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:55:45 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE Konsole, crashes, on a SIGABRT... Message-ID: <3F48EE11.5070806@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <200308241655.40626.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10308231158500.5212-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <200308241655.40626.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
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Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:03, Daniel Eischen wrote: > >>On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> >>>--On Saturday, August 23, 2003 10:27:59 -0400 Daniel Eischen >>> > > (...) > >>>>We (threads guys) think it's a problem with konsole. It is trying >>>>to change ownership of the pty and is failing to do so. We don't >>>>know why. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. konsole >>>>aborts itself when it can't change/open the pty, so SIGABRT is >>>>expected. >>> >>>Interestingly, if I use /etc/libmap.conf to map libc_r.(so|so.5) to >>>libc_r.(so.4|so.4) >>>it works starting from within an XTerm, but not from the bar at the >>>bottom. >>> >>>Now, I have **NOT** rebooted yet. >>> >>>This seems to have started with thursday's world, the previous world was >>>~2 weeks ago. >>> >>>Prior to Thursday, it worked just fine. >> >>I can't explain it. Someone is going to have to debug konsole and >>figure out what is going on. > > > It is a problem that has appeared in the last two weeks, and it was triggered > by a change in (apparently) libc_r as well as libkse, as it doesn't start > with both now. With the patch that Michael Nottebrock provided on this list, > it was perfectly possible to run Konsole with libkse (and libc_r) on a > -CURRENT from august 15. > > So something was broken in the threads code between august 15 and now. I don't > think that we should point to Konsole here, something went wrong in the > threads code. Konsole_grantpty was using a buggy hack, which worked because of a bug in libc_r. Maybe the bug in libc_r was fixed, thereby making it work like libkse and libthr (ie, crashing konsole). Fix: remove konsole_grantpty. If that does not work, just tell me and I'll eat my own hat. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@west.side.of.bsdconspiracy.net Steele: "Aha! We've finally got you talking jargon too!" Stallman: "What did he say?" Steele: "Bob just used "canonical" in the canonical way."
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