"Mutex unlock failure" when compiling KDE (upgrade from 6.x)

[Kris Kennaway]

RCL wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having the same troubles as Leslie Jensen when compiling KDE (or
> anything that uses uic, e.g. amarok):
> compile process stucks with the following message:
> 
> Mutex unlock failure: Operation not permitted
> 
> I found out that the problem was already being investigated here on
> the list, but no solution has yet been proposed :(
> If it helps, I performed the steps that Mel asked to perform and
> here's the log file of Qt build process:
> 
> http://rcl.mine.nu/outbound/freebsd/qt-copy-3.3.8_6.log.tar.gz
> 
> The actual command that is used to link uic is:
> c++ -fno-exceptions  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib
> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -pthread -o ../../../bin/uic
> .obj/release-shared-mt/main.
> o  .obj/release-shared-mt/uic.o  .obj/release-shared-mt/form.o
> .obj/release-shared-mt/object.o  .obj/release-shared-mt/subclassing
> .o  .obj/release-shared-mt/embed.o
> .obj/release-shared-mt/widgetdatabase.o
> .obj/release-shared-mt/domtool.o  .obj/release-shared-
> mt/parser.o    -L/usr/local/lib
> -L/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/lib
> -L/usr/local/lib -lqt-mt -lmng -ljpeg -lp
> ng -lz -lXi -lXrender -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXinerama -lXft -lfreetype
> -lfontconfig -lXext -lX11 -lm -lSM -lICE
> 
> There's no file libpthread.* in /usr/local/lib. These are
> libpthread.so/a files I have:
> 
> # ls -la `locate libpthread.{a,so}`
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel      19 Feb 29 13:57
> /usr/compat/linux/lib/libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-2.3.6.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel      18 Feb 29 13:57
> /usr/compat/linux/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libpthread.so.0 ->
> libpthread-0.10.so
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       8 Feb 29 12:21 /usr/lib/libpthread.a -> libthr.a
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  136020 Feb 29 16:16
> /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.1
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   43284 Oct 17 00:52
> /usr/local/lib/valgrind/libpthread.so
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      13 Oct 17 00:52
> /usr/local/lib/valgrind/libpthread.so.2 -> libpthread.so
> 
> I upgraded the system nearly a month ago (On 29th Feb) and since then
> I cannot build any KDE application (not even rebuild kde base/lib
> ports themselves).
> Upgrade procedure I used is described here:
> http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html
> 
> I hope the information provided will help further investigate the
> problem. I don't want to reinstall the system, that feels like a
> solution from Windows world :-)

Are you certain that your portupgrade -af completed successfully after 
you upgraded the base OS?  If this was not completed it will cause 
problems along these lines.

Kris