Re: Firefox 3 crashes with libthread_xu

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Hasso Tepper wrote:

> Robert Luciani wrote:
> > Robert Luciani wrote:
> > > Robert Luciani wrote:
> > >> Only with libthtread_xu,
> > >> when opening dialogue boxes for choosing files,
> > >> like when you choose "Save As",
> > >> FireFox 3  (wip/firefox) always crashes with the following error:
> > >>
> > >> GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 348
> > >> (g_thread_create_posix_impl): error 'Operation not supported' during
> > >> 'pthread_attr_setschedparam (&attr, &sched)'
> > >
> > > Nevermind. It works fine in latest HEAD...
> >
> > I spoke too soon.
> > The bug is triggered when gnome-settings-daemon is running.
>
> I've seen various problems with glib and applications in recent HEAD. I
> have feeling (nothing concrete) that there has been change during last
> months in HEAD which causes problems if you are using glib and
> application compiled before this threading change.
>
> Ie. recompiling glib _and_ application helps. My problems with Qt and
> qtconcurrent seemed to be such for example.

I'm seeing exactly the same error, so it seems to be a real bug.
Anyone not running gnome will not be affected, however.