Re: Bug#727009: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: FAIL: test-pangocairo-threads
On 29/10/13 00:46, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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).
Any news here? This is blocking pango's migration and the harfbuzz transition.
Emilio
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