Dan Williams writes: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:11 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > CCing Andrew Haley > > > > * Erwin Rol <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-02-01 22:55]: > > > > > > For a while i have the the problem that /usr/bin/gcj-dbtool hangs until > > > i kill it. This is a problem because most java packages use it in their > > > %pre and %post script, and so all installs (and updates) of java > > > programs like eclipse and openoffice hang. > > > > I believe Andrew Haley was tracking this down. I don't think it has > > anything to do with the CDT. > > I was having a problem with this once with mock and the Extras > buildsystem, and we thought the cause might have been python <= 2.3, > which masks _all_ signals for new threads. Somebody said that gcj uses > signals for thread control, which may have lead to a deadlock waiting > for a thread to exit when the signal was simply ignored due to python > stupidity. Not sure if signal masks have anything to do with rpm, but > it seemed to be the issue with python <= 2.3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179002 I'm pretty sure it's a kernel problem. It has never been reported on any system except Feodra, and replacing kernel 2.6.15-1.1869_FC5 with vanilla 2.6.15 (build with fedora .config) seems to fix it. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
