Re: Help debugging glibc pthread_join freezing on sarge using PD/pdp/Gem software
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:23:12PM -0400, B. Bogart wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I tried on debian-user without any luck, perhaps someone on here will
> have an idea how I can further debug this issue. Sorry for anyone who
> got tired of seeing this on debian-user.
>
> I'm running a stock sarge machine with the 32bit 2.6.8 kernel on a AMD64
> 3200+ machine. I'm using some unstable and demudi packages for media
> applications, in particular pure-data (PD).
>
> Problem I'm having is that PD crashes when I try and use v4l2. Actually
> there is no fault, but PD hangs. I traced it down to the use of
> pthread_join() which is where the code hangs. (I've been doing a
> backtrace after manually killing the application)
Why do you think it's pthread_join's fault? pthread_join will wait for
a thread to complete. Is the thread being joined still running?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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