From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com [171.71.163.10]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6682482A for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:59:10 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:58:30 -0800 From: Christian Suder To: Randolph Chung Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Problem with threads.. Message-Id: <20011229235830.4bfec5f9.csuder@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20011230064447.GA2179@tausq.org> References: <20011229012436.4586cb54.csuder@cisco.com> <20011230064447.GA2179@tausq.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:44:47 -0800 "Randolph Chung" wrote: > > the pan newsreader does not want to work on parisc platforms (neither the ones from the debian archive nor a version compiled from scratch). Digging a little bit I found the application hangs at pthread_mutex_lock and similar calls. Tried with various kernel versions over the last couple of months, never worked. Known issue ?> > > > fwiw, what i've seen elsewhere is that on palinux, you have to make sure > the mutex is initialized before locking works. on other platforms > sometimes you can get away with doing a lock without a mutex init. Yes !!! There was one of 4 mutex not initialized, added that one and now it works. Many thanks, Christian