Re: multithreading and a frozen GDK thread

[Andy <sveikaus worldnet att net>]

Just letting you guys know: I think this was a bug in GTK+, because it
works fine when I upgrade the box's libraries to 1.2.8.  So if anyone
encounters similar problems to what's being described here...

I wrote:
> I'm writing a threaded GTK+ program which works just fine on my system
> (Debian 2.2 on i386), but doesn't work at all on Red Hat and reportedly
> others.
>
> Whenever a signal handler is called (even something so simple as the
> cancel button in the prefs window, which just does a gtk_widget_destroy
> on the window), the GTK+ thread is completely unresponsive (widgets fail
> to redraw, etc).
>
> gdb says it stalls on pthread_mutex_lock.  I'm guessing this means I
> haven't done a gdk_threads_leave() somewhere, but I did a grep and
> apparently there's a gdk_threads_leave() for every gdk_threads_enter()
> call.  I also scrolled through all the GTK-related code, and it appears
> everything is done while obtaining the lock as it should.
>
> And again, it works fine on my Debian system...  it doesn't work on my
> friend's Debian system though.  And the only difference between the two
> is mine's got a newer glibc, XF86 4.0.1, and kernel 2.4-test8.  And of
> course hardware (but still x86), and silly things like window manager
> and all that...
>
> Any ideas?
>
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