xfmusic4 NPTL issue?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

that's cool, i didn't know about that.  unfortunately it doesn't seem to 
work on my system.  after setting the var, nothing runs, claiming it 
can't find shared libs.  odd.  anyway, i see your next mail where you 
say it's misbehaving on FC2, so that's enough to convince me, i think.  
adding a g_thread_yield() every 100 iterations of the audio thread loop 
works around the problem, but i'd like to fix it for real...

thanks,
brian

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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