/usr/bin/gcj-dbtool problem
Erwin Rol
mailinglists at erwinrol.com
Thu Feb 2 12:11:08 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:49 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Dan Williams writes:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:11 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > > CCing Andrew Haley
> > >
> > > * Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com> [2006-02-01 22:55]:
> > > >
> > > > For a while i have the the problem that /usr/bin/gcj-dbtool hangs until
> > > > i kill it. This is a problem because most java packages use it in their
> > > > %pre and %post script, and so all installs (and updates) of java
> > > > programs like eclipse and openoffice hang.
> > >
> > > I believe Andrew Haley was tracking this down. I don't think it has
> > > anything to do with the CDT.
> >
> > I was having a problem with this once with mock and the Extras
> > buildsystem, and we thought the cause might have been python <= 2.3,
> > which masks _all_ signals for new threads. Somebody said that gcj uses
> > signals for thread control, which may have lead to a deadlock waiting
> > for a thread to exit when the signal was simply ignored due to python
> > stupidity. Not sure if signal masks have anything to do with rpm, but
> > it seemed to be the issue with python <= 2.3.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179002
>
That looks exactly like the problem i see, so i guess thats the bug.
(why is it that when I search bugzilla before mailing I never find bug
reports, and when I mail before searching there there already is a bug
report :-)
- Erwin
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