Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to 
> > run the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces 
> > this log
> >
> > libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
> > (!) [ 5905:    0.000] --> Caught signal 6 (unknown origin) <--
> > libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
> > Aborted
> >
> > adding this library (and full libc) to the chroot prevents the crash.
>
>
> Good news!
>
> Is it ok to include the library or should the input driver be changed
> to not use pthread_cancel()?

I don't know what's the best option, let's see what d-i people think 
about this (better keeping directfb-dev cc'ed).

cheers

attilio