KDE stopped working after -current upgrade

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > 
> > => I had KDE running nicely since November on my dual PII. After
> > => rebuilding -current on Saturday, I can not login -- seems like the
> > => window manager is crashing:
> > => 
> > => 	pid 52040 (kdeinit), uid 105: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
> > => 
> > => The only unusual thing is -- PTHREAD_LIBS is set to -lthr... I tried
> > => rebuilding Qt, kdelibs, and kdebase -- still the same.
> > 
> > =Ports are not yet ready for switching PTHREAD_LIBS to something other
> > =than -lc_r. But don't let this stop you from trying to figure out which
> > =ports are getting confused and fixing them :-) For 5.3 we'll need to
> > =solve this since libkse^H^H^Hpthread will be the default.
> > 
> > KDE ports seem to be ready. ldd confirms, that there is no -lc_r in the
> > list of libraries -- only -lthr. Most importantly, it was running fine
> > until the upgrade. I only started rebuilding it after noticing crashes
> > post reboot.
> 
> Make sure you have all the X/Qt/KDE binaries and libraries
> built for only -lthr (you didn't mention rebuilding X above).
> To make sure mixing libthr with libc_r or libkse as a problem,
                                                   ^^ isn't
> you can use /etc/libmap.conf to force libthr for libkse and
> libc_r.  If you still have crashes, then that might point a
> finger at libthr...