[pkg-firebird-general] Lock Manager out of Room => Not using NPTL Model

[Damyan Ivanov]

Aldo,

-=| Aldo Caruso, 24.04.2007 04:23 |=-
> I apologise for the time it took to me to answer. Let me answer your
> questions of your e-mail on 11th April:

No problem, better late than never :)

> 1) In the logging ( firebird.log ) I found the message "SCH_validate --
> not entered ", previous to the Lock Manager out of Room.
> That led Hellen Borrie spot the cause ( as I told you before ): the
> Firebird SS was not using NPTL Model.

I see.

> 2) I have no recipe to distingush between the two models, but the bug
> above mentioned leads to believe that the Firebird SS is using pthread
> model.

Pity.

> 3) Classic Server doesn't use threads, so it is neither NPTL nor
> pthread. Thats why it is free from this bug in Debian.

Yes.

> 4) Perhaps there is no reason to have the two packages ( NPTL and
> pthread ) in Debian ( as the are in Firebird.org ) provided that the SS
> package should be NPTL model.

Agreed. Debian should have NPTL-only build.

> I'm using Classic Server since a month with no error. Super Server,
> though more performant, has that nasty bug ( SCH_validate ) which causes
> an inmediate Lock Manager out of Room. I can't use it.

Sorry about this.

I need to "gather my thoughts" and ask on the firebird-devel list how
is the NPTL build produced and compare it with the Debian procedure.
This will take some days/week(s) so anyone else is welcome to do it
for me.


	dam
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