Re: Bug#727009: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: FAIL: test-pangocairo-threads
On 28/10/13 23:49, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> On 28/10/13 14:33, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> The test is trying to create 100 threads, but pthread_create returns EAGAIN
>> because it hits some limit, which makes g_thread_new() abort (as stated in the
>> docs, g_thread_try_new() wouldn't abort but return NULL).
>>
>> The question is, why are we hitting the limit so soon here?
>
> Not sure yet but this reminds me of bug #725516:
>>> lbzip2: unable to create a POSIX thread: Resource temporarily unavailable
Indeed, looks very similar. It's also failing consistently when ran as `make
check' but works most of the time when invoked directly.
FWIW we run autoreconf at the beginning of the build so we're using latest
automake as available in Debian (1.14 in this case).
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