Nontrivial brokeness with new threads.

[Iasen Kostov]

Kenneth Culver wrote:

> Quoting Iasen Kostov <tbyte at OTEL.net>:
>
>> Doug White wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, David Gilbert wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've updated to the new threads and in the process remade every port
>>>> on the system.  The following don't play well together:
>>>>
>>>> xmms-esound and ndvidia-driver.
>>>>
>>>> It's odd too... because xmms doesn't include the shared libraries that
>>>> nvidia installs.
>>>>
>>>> ... now I'm not positive that this has to do with threads, but the
>>>> installation and removal of nvidia-driver makes xmms not work or work.
>>>>
>>>
>>> See UPDATING and list discussion. KSE and the nvidia driver don't get
>>> along.
>>>
>>>
>>    Nope, they do work perfect for me (KSE, Nvidia and XMMS and even
>> UT2004Demo :)). I got system that is about 36h old build from the latest
>> current at that time and everything works fine after I recompile most ot
>> the ports that were using libpthread. There is a little problem with the
>> nvidia-driver because it does not have version set but it is trivial to
>> fix and I have sent a mail to maintainer for the issue.
>>
> Doesn't work here. As soon as I installed the nvidia driver, mplayer, 
> xmms,
> java, openoffice, etc... (anything that uses threads) stopped working. 
> When I
> set up libmap.conf to force everything to use libc_r, it all started 
> working
> again.
>
> Ken
>
    What does mean "stopped working", what is the reason (signaled 
possibly) ?