From: quillion <me@...>
Date: 2003-12-25T04:16:52+09:00
Subject: Re: TkText freezes

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.
> 

My glibc is glibc-2.3.2-14mdk on mandrake 9.2 I have a mandrake 9.0
I can boot into I'll try that

Neil