[Alpine-info] Alpine crashing

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote:


>> (gdb) bt

>> #0  0x285ac55b in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2

>> #1  0x285a4eec in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2

>> #2  0x2840d450 in ?? ()

>> (gdb)

>> 

>> Not that I know what to do with this information :)  If there is some bug 

>> in the threading it is way over my head...

>

> Threads on FreeBSD 6.x used KSE (M:N threads) and threads on FreeBSD 7.x are 

> 1:1.  What does that mean for you you may ask.  It means that some issues 

> were fixed by moving to the simpler 1:1 threads that now exist in 7.x.  I 

> recommend, if you have permission, that you build Alpine from ports with the 

> thread option disabled:

>

> 1. cd /usr/ports/mail/alpine && make config

> 2. Set THREADS to off in the menu.

> 3. make clean

> 4. make deinstall install clean

>


I have to admit, I am pretty excited about a possible solution!  Just 
rebuilt it and so far so good ;)

Cheers,

j