Re: Workaround for kFreeBSD crash in reportbug

[Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>]

Hi!

Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net> writes:
> This patch lets me start reportbug's text ui.  It sidesteps the
> python-gtk2 problem with readline and threads by requesting that the
> readline hook be uninstalled.

  Thanks a lot for this workaround. I can finally use reportbug sanely
again!

> However, I still believe that the problem is either in python-gtk2 or
> python-gtk2's FAQ advice on how to use gtk.gdk.threads_init().

  Can you be a bit more verbose about that? Also the FAQ might well be
right and what we are seeing yet another bug in kfreebsd's pthread
implementation.

Regards

    Christoph