Re: Eclipse will not start

[Ian Burrell <ianburrell gmail com>]

On 1/29/06, Jonathan Berry <berryja gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, perhaps.  The end of the report suggests that it might be a
> pthreads or kernel bug, yuck.  Beagle seems to not be working either
> as is noted in some of the comments.  That possibly might explain the
> whole slew of programs that are just not working on this system.
> Anyone have any suggestions of how to troubleshoot this?
> My previous kernel got uninstalled when yum updated me to the current
> one (?), so I cannot go back and check that.  As well, rpm does not
> want to let me install the older kernel (?).  I do still have the
> original FC5T2 kernel, perhaps that is worth a try.
>

Mono apps hanging definitely seems to be related especially if it a
locking/thread issue.  Both mono and java use threads for the garbage
collector.  An strace shows tomboy stopping in a futex call.

I added a bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179304,
for the mono apps problem.

 - Ian