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

[gabor]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:18:04PM +0200, gabor wrote:
> > 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.
>

i tested this more:

this is on a gentoo box:

1. glibc-nptl-on,  mono-nptl-on:  muine freezes
2. glibc-nptl-off, mono-nptl-off: muine works
3. glibc-nptl-on,  mono-nptl-off: muine freezes

so it seems to be a gentoo-nptl problem :(

gabor