libthr/libkse and Mozilla Firebird

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, 20:44+0800, David Xu wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:50, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > Have you tried updating libpthread very recently (yesterday?).
> > > There was a commit a few days ago that broke libpthread; kde
> > > wouldn't even work.  I'm not sure if it has been fixed yet,
> > > but there was a commit yesterday that may have fixed it.
> > > David or kan should know...
> >
> > Yes, the problem seems be fixed, it works fine now.
> 
> It seems it is not.  With today sources and libkse firebird exits soon
> after startup, openoffice 1.0.2 coredumps, mplayer 0.90.0.110_4
> coredumps too (probably due to nvidia TSD, do not know).

Yes, if you are using Nvidia drivers/OpenGL/whatever that uses
static LDTs, then you are out of luck I guess.  They need to
be fixed to use dynamic LDTs.  If you are using a very recent
kernel also, then you should be getting warning messages
about PIDs using static ldt allocations.

-- 
Dan Eischen