Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-12-04 Thread Denis Oliver Kropp
Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: IIUC pthread_cancel() is revealing difficult to be replaced: should we proceed adding libgcc1 to d-i, hence leaving you DFB guys all the time you needed to implement an appropriate replacement for that call? I can make quick hackish workarounds for selected drivers

Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-12-04 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Claudio Ciccani schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Claudio Ciccani schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: But pthread_cancel() also terminates the thread at mutex_lock for example which would be bad if a lock is already taken. I'd prefer having well chosen voluntary

Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-11-29 Thread Denis Oliver Kropp
Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Should be possible with minor effort. pthread_cancel() is evil anyways. Dok, we would really really apreciate if you could provide us ASAP the patch: we're now kind of running out of time as Etch release date gets closer every day. I'll

Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-11-29 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Hi i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to run the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces this log libgcc_s.so.1 must be installe

Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-11-29 Thread Denis Oliver Kropp
Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Hi i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to run the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces this log libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work

Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-11-29 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Hi i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to run the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces this log libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work (!) [ 5905:0.000] --> Cau

Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-11-24 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Hi i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to run the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces this log libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work (!) [ 5905:0.000] --> Cau

Re: [directfb-dev] Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

2006-11-24 Thread Denis Oliver Kropp
Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Hi i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to run the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces this log libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work (!) [ 5905:0.000] --> Caught signal 6 (unknown origin)