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Re: libc internal error (Sun/Solaris)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Mar 12 16:23:02 1999

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:22:49 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>

I said yesterday:

>I'm trying to run a fancy OpenGL application on Suns (which I built
>from source- it depends on a complicated set of custom graphics
>libraries which I also built from source). This happens when I launch
>the binary:
>
>/mit/sgi-desktop athena% ./Mace
>libc internal error: _rmutex_unlock: rmutex not held.

Well, I figured this out myself. It turned out that it was a multithreading
issue, and adding the -mt command-line switch makes this go away. Something to
file away for future reference in case this comes up again.

                                           Alex




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