From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.pangeatech.com (pxofc151-phx1.pangeatech.com [63.110.32.151]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4CF482A for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:45:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from [65.192.22.133] by mail.pangeatech.com (NTMail 7.00.0018/NU8172.00.e2123c13) with ESMTP id clzakaaa for parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:39:22 -0700 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:44:47 -0800 From: Randolph Chung To: Christian Suder Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Problem with threads.. Message-ID: <20011230064447.GA2179@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung References: <20011229012436.4586cb54.csuder@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20011229012436.4586cb54.csuder@cisco.com> 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: > 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. for another example see http://bugs.debian.org/124307 randolph -- @..@ http://www.TauSq.org/ (----) ( >__< ) ^^ ~~ ^^