Re: KDE Konsole, crashes, on a SIGABRT...

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:

> On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:03, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > --On Saturday, August 23, 2003 10:27:59 -0400 Daniel Eischen
> > >
> (...)
> > > >
> > > > We (threads guys) think it's a problem with konsole.  It is trying
> > > > to change ownership of the pty and is failing to do so.  We don't
> > > > know why.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  konsole
> > > > aborts itself when it can't change/open the pty, so SIGABRT is
> > > > expected.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, if I use /etc/libmap.conf to map libc_r.(so|so.5) to
> > > libc_r.(so.4|so.4)
> > > it works starting from within an XTerm, but not from the bar at the
> > > bottom.
> > >
> > > Now, I have **NOT** rebooted yet.
> > >
> > > This seems to have started with thursday's world, the previous world was
> > > ~2 weeks ago.
> > >
> > > Prior to Thursday, it worked just fine.
> >
> > I can't explain it.  Someone is going to have to debug konsole and
> > figure out what is going on.
> 
> It is a problem that has appeared in the last two weeks, and it was triggered 
> by a change in (apparently) libc_r as well as libkse, as it doesn't start 
> with both now. With the patch that Michael Nottebrock provided on this list, 
> it was perfectly possible to run Konsole with libkse (and libc_r) on a 
> -CURRENT from august 15. 

Are you saying that with Michael's patch and post August 15th libraries
it doesn't work?

> So something was broken in the threads code between august 15 and now. I don't 
> think that we should point to Konsole here, something went wrong in the 
> threads code.

Nothing has been touched in libc_r in over 4 weeks.

I maintain that it is a konsole (grantpty) problem.

-- 
Dan Eischen