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Re: pychess freezes + kernel 2.6 threading library



On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:42:06PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr, 2007 at 12:20:00PM +0200, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote:
> > s??n, 15 04 2007 kl. 15:31 +0530, skrev Varun Hiremath:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 14 Apr, 2007 at 11:26:26PM +0200, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote:
> > > > l??r, 14 04 2007 kl. 23:10 +0530, skrev Varun Hiremath:
> > > > > Please find attached the deb package for the final version.
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > > But, sorry to say it still freezes on my comp :-(
> > > > Dammit. Don't you have a file called /etc/debian-release
> > > > or /etc/debian_version?
> > > 
> > > I have /etc/debian_version file.
> > 
> > ok. Then exporting manually should make do difference.
> > 
> > > > Could you try to run export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 just before you start
> > > > pychess?
> > > 
> > > Actually yesterday I upgraded my computer to the latest Debian
> > > unstable. Now pychess refuses to start and gives this error. Before
> > > this upgrade pychess final version didn't give this error.
> > > 
> > > $$ python: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot
> > > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > > I changed the export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.6.1 in pychess file and
> > > then the main window loaded but still it freezes when I start playing
> > > the game.
> > > 
> > > What exactly does this export statement do? Is the problem with the
> > > new kernels or the old kernels?
> > 
> > It seams to be related to some pthreads 2.4->2.6 stuff.
> > http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2005-October/011246.html
> > 
> > I get the same error when using the line on fedora, so probably debian
> > has now switched to theo same kernel configuration on the point.
> > 
> > I guess we should the remove the auto calling on debian, and instead
> > write it in some "known errors" article...
> > 
> > What I just don't seam to understand is why pychess still crashes on you
> > computer...
> > idle_add and source_remove seams to be a common reason for crashes:
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=idle_add+freeze but everybody else seams
> > to solve it by using ASSUME_KERNEL on debian.
> > 
> > Perhaps we could recode PyChess to not use source_remove. I might not be
> > too hard. Not sure.
>  
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas,
>   I am CCing this mail to debian-devel. Lets see if we can get some
>   help there. 
> 
> Hi all,
>   Please have a look at this bug report:
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407872
> 
>   Pychess freezes during a game and the problem seems to be with pyGTK
>   and the threading library in kernel 2.6. I have not yet tried it
>   with kernel 2.4. 
>   
>   I just wanted to know if this is a known issue and is there is any
>   fix for this. export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 doesn't seem to work.

  LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 does not work in debian anymore: libc2.5 has no
support for 2.4 kernels anymore.


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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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