seemingly unfixable Spinlock error under 5.3?
Andrew Moran
amoran at forsythia.net
Sat Nov 13 13:49:30 PST 2004
I made the jump from 5.21 to 5.3 earlier and started getting the
infamous "Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83
in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 2)"
everytime I ran gnucash.
According to the release notes and previous posts, the problem comes
from the port being linked against two threading libraries (libkse,
libc_r, libpthread, or whatnot). The solution is to recompile the port
and everything it depends on, or to be safe, recompile all your ports.
I've done an ldd -a on everything in /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 and I
can't see to find anyhing other than libpthread and libqthreads
(installed by guile). I've recompiled gnucash with portupgrade -R
gnucash to no avail. I then tried reinstalling ALL my ports using
'portupgrade -fa'. This is after I upgraded to 5.3 by syncing the
world, rebuilding and reinstalling the kernel, installing a new world,
and resyncing the ports tree.
I still seem to get that error with gnucash.
Also, running 'strace -f gnucash' just hangs indefinitely with no
output. I don't know if that's a clue. Since gnucash is a guile
program, I'm not sure how to debug where the spinlock issue is coming
from.
I asked the freebsd-questions list but have gotten no response. So
in desperation, I'm broadening my quest. I don't want to reinstall
the server from scratch if there is another way to fix this error.
Could there be something in my kernel configuration causing this? I
can't find a reference to libc_r or libkse *anywhere*. :/
Does anyone have any ideas for me to try? Thank you for your time.
--And
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