Subject: Re: galeon is failing on 1.6R
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/21/2003 14:05:04
In message <CC95DA98-7414-11D7-A7A4-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>, Jason Thor
pe writes:
>
>On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 06:14  AM, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>
>> $ galeon
>> assertion "weown" failed: file 
>> "/usr/src/lib/libpthread/pthread_mutex.c", line 3
>> 32, function "pthread_mutex_unlock"
>> Abort (core dumped)
>
>This is a bug in Galeon.  While tracking down some of the "pthread 
>bugs" that have been reported lately, Nathan discovered that a number 
>of them were actually bugs in the applications.
>
>So, he added some additional assertions to the code to be more brutal 
>in cases where the spec leaves behavior as "undefined".
>
>You've just run into one of these... Galeon is unlocking a lock it does 
>not own.
>
>Nathan did incorporate some fixes into the Gnome libraries.  You might 
>consider reinstalling your Gnome-related libraries and see if that 
>fixes your problem.

Oh, joy -- rebuilding most of pkgsrc.  Just my idea of a great day...  
(Of course, the real problem I'm muttering about here is the bloat of 
the gnome libraries.)

I'll do a rebuild as soon as I can do a cvs update of pkgsrc -- I 
haven't been able to get through today.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)