Futex Wait Called

[Theodore Papadopoulo]

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Thursday 22 October 2009 10
> :51:18 am pandi k wrote:
>   
>> Really sorry to say that unfortunately i can not able to move to FC11 now.
>> Ok... anyhow thanks for your info and i will upgrade to latest fedora later
>> and ask you again if the same problem repeat.
>> pandi.k
>>     
>
> Hi, 
> I think your problem has less to do with the Fedora version and something more 
> to do with your application or driver. It is unfortunate that people initial 
> reply seems to default to "Upgrade to latest version" without actually 
> reading / thinking about the problem.
>
> I don't have any tips for solving your original problem. But I would suggest 
> that you take this to a more programming / development oriented mailing list 
> rather than a general user list like this Fedora-List. 
>
> Maybe try one or some of this newsgroup / mailing list:
> http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-c-programming
> comp.os.linux.development.apps
> comp.os.linux.development.system
> comp.os.linux.misc
>   
That being said, such futex problems also happen quite frequently (once 
or twice per day) on
Fedora 10 (not quite the latest) with thunderbird... So it's probably 
some long standing problem
(I remember days -- years ago -- where the problem of futex blocking was 
much more severe).

    Theo.