Re: Transmission broken with -current?

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:35:54 -0700
Scott Ellis <scotte%warped.com@localhost> wrote:

> On 6/15/2009 1:34 AM, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:54:20 -0700
> > Scott Ellis<scotte%warped.com@localhost>  wrote:
> >
> >> I upgraded from a May 2nd amd64/-current to one as of June 14th, and am
> >> experiencing weird breakage with "Transmission".  When an RPC is used
> >> (e.g., transmission-remote against transmission-daemon) I get a bus
> >> error.  Backtrace shows:
> >
> > I see a similar crash, but couldn't make much sense of the backtrace.
> > It seems to run on current/i386, but falls over immediately on amd64.
> >
> > Swiching from kqueue to select and from the bundled libevent to the one
> > from pkgsrc didn't help. (the latter will be changed anyway with the
> > next update).
> >
> 
> As another data point here, running a June 14th userland with the May 
> 2nd kernel (yes, this makes me feel dirty, but it was an easy 
> configuration to test) still exhibits the same problem.  Reverting 
> wholesale to the May 2nd kernel+userland works, of course.
> 
> So it seems this is really a kernel+userland issue...or maybe I'm just 
> going crazy. :-)

Hi again,

I suspect a libpthread regression, as preloading a libpthread.so from
May 15th appears to solve the stability issue here.

I'm doing e.g:
$ LD_PRELOAD=/work/src2/obj/lib/libpthread/libpthread.so transmission

Kind regards,
-Tobias