Re: Folder creation bug

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:40 AM, <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:27:09 +0200
> Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > I can't test it here ATM, due to crashes all over the place ;-( I just 
>> > updated my distro, and am now getting lots of the sort of X errors 
>> > reported recently for ubuntu 9.04 and debian testing. Thread-locking is 
>> > not working properly. I'm not sure if it's e2 itself, or gtk 2.16 (again) 
>> > or glibc or xlib (actually libxcb, now) or X server. My current favourite 
>> > is libxcb (some significant changes there, between previous and current 
>> > versions, and still a long TODO). If I turn out to be correct about this, 
>> > we're pretty much stuffed until they fix it (or else recode emelFM2 to use 
>> > just 1 thread, YUK).
>>
>> I'm a complete novice at this, but you are locking (other) threads
>> before doing rendering related stuff?
>
> Within emelFM2 there is comprehensive usage of gdk's lock mechanism (a 
> mutex). While it's still possible that we've missed some lock coverage, that 
> seems increasingly unlikely as time passes, and the code gets refined and 
> tested more and more on systems that do work as intended. But recent error 
> messages indicate that the lock is not being observed sometimes, somewhere in 
> the system and apparently not in e2 functions that involve UI functionality. 
> Our difficulty is compounded by emelFM2, gtk and libxcb all doing some 
> UI-related things asynchronously.
>
>>
>> Also, it's indeed possible that the libX11 libxcb interface is to blame.
>> The change that i have in mind is
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=54e5c0941b0ded1628d559a9f0a3451ea96c299b
>
> Indeed, it's that sort of thing that inspired my comment (above) about 
> libxcb. Prior to the last week or so, I had libxcb 1.1.91 or something, and 
> it worked ok. From libxcb changelogs, I see that 1.1.92 was the first with a 
> new locking process. Now I have 1.2, and things went bad. Debian testing uses 
> 1.3, I think. The libxcb mail-list has various posts about problems with 
> threads, but I can't find anything about fixes.

That's because none where found (and publicly mentioned) as far as i'm aware.

>
> Regards
> Tom
>
>
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