Exceed max spinlock?

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Tue Jan 17 14:13:36 PST 2006


On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:09:50PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > troutmask:kargl[208] firefox
> > Fatal error 'Exceeded max spinlocks' at line 127 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> > Abort trap (core dumped)
> >
> > What the correct fix for this bogon?  firefox was working until I
> > upgraded libc from a 13 Jan version to a 16 Jan version.
> 
> You can't just upgrade libc.  You need a coherent set of libraries
> (rebuild libpthread from sync'd sources).
> 

Jason updates libc/lidstd/malloc.c.  I rebuild libc and install
a new libc.  My libpthread is less than 3 days old and I need to
re-install libpthread, too?  Are there other libraries that have
this nasty dependency?

-- 
Steve


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