The following reply was made to PR lib/27230; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: eau@phear.org
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: pthread: frequent crashes in pthread__signal_deferred (as in PR 27230)
Date: Sun,  7 Aug 2005 22:29:40 +0000 (UTC)

 >Submitter-Id:	net
 >Originator:	Eric Auge
 >Organization:	none
 >Confidential:	no
 >Synopsis:	pthread: frequent crashes in pthread__signal_deferred (as in PR 27230)
 >Severity:	serious
 >Priority:	low
 >Category:	pkg
 >Class:		sw-bug
 >Release:	3.99.6
 >Environment:	NetBSD mubutu.no.phear.org 3.99.6 NetBSD 3.99.6 (MUBUTU) #7: Sun Jul  3 23:44:46 CEST 2005  root@mubutu.no.phear.org:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/MUBUTU i386
 
 >Description:
 Thunderbird crashes every couple of hours during normal operation,
 always at the same place:
 
 Loaded symbols for /usr/pkg/lib/thunderbird/components/libcomposer.so
 #0  0xbd41de9b in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
 gdb> bt
 #0  0xbd41de9b in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
 #1  0xbd43d470 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
 #2  0x08054bf1 in nsProfileLock::FatalSignalHandler(int) ()
 #3  0xbd4cf17b in pthread__signal_deferred () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
 
 especially when I compose an important and long enough mail.
 >How-To-Repeat:
 work with it a few hours, and compose, receive on few imap boxes, using enigmail pgp plugin.
 >Fix: