[Zope] Zope stops responding on hpux

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On Sun, 8 May 2005, Samuel Bieri wrote:

>
> I managed to compile GNU debug 6.1.1 on the hp-ux box.

I hope it wasn't too much trouble. You could have gotten it from here:
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb

>
> ---> here I klick on a tal-obect in zope. Zope freezes. Then I kill
zope.
>
> Program received signal SIGQUIT, Quit.
> 0x77d2ca58 in __lwp_sema_wait () from /usr/lib/librt.2
>
> (gdb) bt
> # 0  0x77d2ca58 in __lwp_sema_wait () from /usr/lib/librt.2
> # 1  0x77d2ba78 in sem_wait () from /usr/lib/librt.2
> # 2  0x77d2ba10 in sem_wait () from /usr/lib/librt.2
> # 3  0x77d2ba10 in sem_wait () from /usr/lib/librt.2
> Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (gdb)
>
> Can any experienced zope programmer help me further?
> What does this mean?

Looks like a deadlock on a semaphore to me, though I couldn't say where.

Did you python build pass all of the self tests?
Did you build your python with the posix threads apis (i.e. not DCE
threads)?

Jeff D

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