Bug#671785: Workaround for kFreeBSD crash in reportbug

Christoph Egger christoph at debian.org
Mon Dec 31 01:34:10 UTC 2012


Hi!

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> writes:
> This patch lets me start reportbug's text ui.  It sidesteps the
> python-gtk2 problem with readline and threads by requesting that the
> readline hook be uninstalled.

  Thanks a lot for this workaround. I can finally use reportbug sanely
again!

> However, I still believe that the problem is either in python-gtk2 or
> python-gtk2's FAQ advice on how to use gtk.gdk.threads_init().

  Can you be a bit more verbose about that? Also the FAQ might well be
right and what we are seeing yet another bug in kfreebsd's pthread
implementation.

Regards

    Christoph




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