Some analysis of starting a Gnome session under valgrind

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Tue Sep 21 20:47:40 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 16:26 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:

> It's my understanding that ORBit often allocates large buffers and
> writes the whole thing even after only using a small portion, this works
> in the CORBA protocol.  You can compile ORBit with some special
> configure option to make it initialize the buffers.
> 
> > - pango read_line raises a strange pthread mutex error:
> >   pthread_mutex_lock/trylock: mutex has invalid owner
> >   in pthread_mutex_lock called by pango_read_line from pango_find_map
> 
> This one is odd, maybe Owen has an idea.

Presumably it's the flockfile() funlockfile() calls in that function.
I can't see anything in this that looks wrong, so it's probably 
a bad valgrind/libc interaction.

Regards,
						Owen

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