xfmusic4 NPTL issue?

[Olivier]

Brian,

BTW, I confirm the GUI seems to misbehave on a FC2 system... It becomes
unresponsive.

With LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0, it seems it works fine.

HTH
Olivier.



On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 09:03, Olivier wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> You can easily disable NPTL at runtime by setting "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL".
> 
> So, to confirm it comes from NPTL, just try this:
> 
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0
> xfmusic4
> 
> HTH
> Olivier.
> 
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 00:00, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > hi all-
> > 
> > i got a new laptop a week or two ago, and i built glibc with NPTL and 
> > TLS support, unlike on my main desktop machine.  i went and compiled and 
> > installed xfmusic4 on my laptop, and it's behaving strangely.  the GUI 
> > locks up most of the time when playing songs.  actually, xfmusic4-cli 
> > behaves similarly in that it pauses for long periods of time between 
> > updating the playback position display.  has anyone else seen this on an 
> > NPTL-enabled system?  to check, just run /lib/libc.so.6 from the 
> > commandline, and look in the list of "Available extensions".  one should 
> > read "Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al", and below 
> > that section you should (probably) see "Thread-local storage support 
> > included."
> > 
> > i've added some printfs, and what i expected is happening - the main 
> > thread is taking a ridiculous amount of time to acquire the XfMusic 
> > object's stream mutex - even while the audio thread repeatedly aquires 
> > and drops it.  adding a g_thread_yield() call to the audio thread's main 
> > loop might alleviate this, but by no means do i see that as an 
> > acceptable solution.
> > 
> > so i'm interested in three types of scenarios:
> > 1) if you ARE seeing this problem and you DO have an NPTL-enabled system
> > 2) if you ARE NOT seeing this problem and you DO have an NPTL-enabled 
> > system
> > 3) if you ARE seeing this problem and you DO NOT have an NPTL-enabled 
> > system
> > 
> > as you might guess, i only need replies if you fall into one of those 3 
> > categories.
> > 
> > thanks all.  now that i'm moved in and mostly settled in my new 
> > apartment, i'll be getting back to development on xfmusic4, and xfce in 
> > general, starting this weekend.
> > 
> > 	-brian
> > 
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