[Mono-devel-list] Threading, NPTL, libgc (beta2)

[gabor]

> On Saturday 05 June 2004 01:22 am, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > >   I think I am in the same boat as you.  Since upgrading to beta2, I have
> > > been running into odd behavior w/ XSP and mod_mono (and I also run
> > > gentoo).  I sent a note to the mono user list about this, but haven't
> > > heard anything yet. I tried upgrading to the latest available glibc, and
> > > still have the same problems.  I might try to play around with some
> > > things this weekend, but I am not hopeful...
> > >
> > >   Are there any happy Gentoo folks that aren't having this odd behavior
> > > in beta2? (then we can compare the packages we each have installed..)
> >
> > What we are going to need from you guys is the smallest possible
> > program that breaks on your system, and we will start tracking the
> > issue down from there.
> >
> > Could you guys cook the smallest possible program possible?
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:48:07PM -0400, Mike Morano wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After being fairly unsuccessful at creating a decent app to exhibit this 
> behavior, I rebuilt glibc (and a few other pkgs) on my gentoo box, without 
> nptl support.  Additionally, when configuring mono beta 3, I passed 
> --with-nptl=no.  So far the XSP test site and my site work as they used to in 
> beta1, and it has not "hung" on a page yet!

yes, nptl seems to be the problem (at least on gentoo).

i have problems with muine...it freezes on gentoo. i talked to someone on #muine, who also had gentoo, but without nptl. muine worked fine for him.

btw. in the times of mono-beta-1, i used muine without problems, and i had nptl.it went wrong with mono-beta-2 (and it still is freezing with mono-beta-3).

btw. using GC_DONT_GC=1 fixes the problem for me (but obviously i don't like to use for a long time an app without gc).

gabor

p.s: i'll create a bugreport on bugs.gentoo.org tomorrow (when i get to rebuild glibc without nptl, to verify that my theory is correct)