From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-25T03:49:50+09:00
Subject: Re: TkText freezes

Hi,

In message "TkText freezes"
    on 03/12/24, quillion <me@privacy.net> writes:

|I have been using this method for some years with Tk but now find it 
|freezing with ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-05) [i686-linux and in the full app 
|will sometimes segfault and dump core. Works ok with a snapshot from 
|October ruby 1.8.0 (2003-10-02) [i686-linux]

Currently I suspect this is caused by LinuxThread bug.  I tried hard
to solve Nathaniel Talbott's problem, which must be caused by the
same reason, but I couldn't make complete success.

Can you give us the information about your libpthread version?  You
must using LinuxThread included in glibc, so that glibc version will
do.  Mine was glibc-2.3.2.ds1-10 on Debian/sid.

Of course, it's better to be proven that my suspicion is wrong, since
it's a lot easier to fix bugs in Ruby.  If you have any information
about this problem, let me know.

The only workaround I know for sure is use libraries compiled without
-lpthread, if possible.

							matz.