freebsd stable - Sep 2004 - Spinlock problem in 5.3-Beta

I cvsuped last week, on 9 Sept and since then I've installed XMMS and 
mplayer from the ports and neither one of them work, here are the errors 
I receive when I try to start them:

XMMS:
Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file 
/usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

mplayer:
Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file 
/usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
Abort trap (core dumped)

I'm not sure if this is a new feature in 5 or a debugging problem or 
what.  Does anyone have any help they can offer?

-Jason Porter

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:43:12PM -0600, Jason Porter
wrote:
> I cvsuped last week, on 9 Sept and since then I've installed XMMS and 
> mplayer from the ports and neither one of them work, here are the errors 
> I receive when I try to start them:
> 
> XMMS:
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> mplayer:
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a new feature in 5 or a debugging problem or 
> what.  Does anyone have any help they can offer?
Check the archives, this is a FAQ.

Kris

I got this same problem when I upgraded to 5.3-Beta, but for me it was 
with gnucash, not xmms.  (I don't use XMMS, so I don't know if that 
port would break for me as well).


I searched the archives and it seems the problem comes from a program 
using one threading system (pthreads) but having a dependancy compiled 
against the other system ((libc_r).    The solution is either to 1) 
recompile all your ports to use the same threading system, or 2) map 
all calls to one system to another using /etc/libmap.conf.

However, I tried *both* of these and neither work.     I've used ldd on 
everything under /usr/local and nothing is linked to libc_r (although 
many are linked to pthread).      I've tried recompiling all the 
requirements of gnucash using portupgrade -fR.      I've also tried 
mapping the libc_r calls to pthread calls using an /etc/libmap.conf 
file:
[root@celebrian] /# cat /etc/libmap.conf
libc_r.so.5             libpthread.so.1 # Everything that uses 'libc_r'
libc_r.so               libpthread.so   # now uses 'libpthread'

Yet I'm still getting the error.  I can only assume that something is 
broken in 5.3-BETA regarding pthreads  unless someone has any other 
insight.    I'm hitting my head against a wall.  beh.

--Andy


On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:43 PM, Jason Porter wrote:
> I cvsuped last week, on 9 Sept and since then I've installed XMMS and 
> mplayer from the ports and neither one of them work, here are the 
> errors I receive when I try to start them:
>
> XMMS:
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> mplayer:
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> Abort trap (core dumped)
>
> I'm not sure if this is a new feature in 5 or a debugging problem or 
> what.  Does anyone have any help they can offer?
>
> -Jason Porter
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