Problem with libthr after update

Christoph Friedrichs christophfriedrichs at gmx.net
Wed Oct 31 00:12:18 PDT 2007


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Christoph Friedrichs wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I?m relatively new with my freebsd -current box and actual 
>> experiencing problems with starting kdm and portupgrade. Everytime I 
>> do so the kdm-bin log explodes with this error messages:
>>
>> Fatal error 'Cannot allocate red zone for initial thread' at line 382 
>> in file /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c (errno = 12)
>> Fatal error 'Cannot allocate red zone for initial thread' at line 382 
>> in file /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c (errno = 12)
>> Fatal error 'Cannot allocate red zone for initial thread' at line 382 
>> in file /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c (errno = 12)
>>
>> I googled this problem and found something concering some ruby 
>> packages. I did a manual rebuild of
>>
>> ruby-1.8.6_2,1
>> perl-5.8.8
>> ruby18-bdb-0.6.2
>> db41-4.1.25_4
>> portupgrade-2.3.1,2
>>
>> With this rebuild problems with portupgrade were solved but kdm keeps 
>> refusing to start with same error messages. In UPDATING I found this:
>>
>> 20071009:
>>        Setting WITHOUT_LIBPTHREAD now means WITHOUT_LIBKSE and
>>        WITHOUT_LIBTHR are set.
>>
>> Does this probably have something to do with this?
>
> Did you update from an older release of FreeBSD?
>
> Kris
>
>
Yes I did an update from an older release. I previously installed PC-BSD 
1.4 which is running a FreeBSD 6 Stable under hood. Actual im running

root at helix# uname -a
FreeBSD helix 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #3: Tue Oct 30 09:45:09 
CET 2007     root at helix:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SELFMADE  i386

Christoph


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