Erwin Rol wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 00:11 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: >> 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. >> > > I don't think /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db or /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db have > anything to do with python, so i doubt it is a python issue. and > secondly the rawhide python version is 2.4.2. > > But a deadlock might be the cause, because when i hang strace on the > program it seems to wait on a futex. > > - Erwin > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179002 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
