gnucash 1.7.8 and ofx still doesn't work

[Nigel Titley]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 21:11, Benoit Grégoire wrote:
> On January 22, 2003 10:31 am, Nigel Titley wrote:
> > No doubt the same versions as he reported last time. Its caused by
> > linking against very recent releases of OpenSP and seems to be some sort
> > of pthread related issue. Benoit is still looking at it.
> >
> > This is bug number #101738
> >
> > Rolf, can you report your system details against #101738 on Bugzilla,
> > that way, we may get this bug moved out of UNCONFIRMED. I think what
> > Benoit needs to do is fix libofx so it doesn't drag in the threads
> > library (via OpenSP), but until we can get this bug confirmed, I don't
> > think he's able to commit much time/effort to it.
> 
> It's not that I don't believe the bug exists, it's that I can't reproduce it.  
> On my system, libosp.so.3.0.0 (from OpenSP 1.5, 1.5pre8, and libosp.so.2.0.0 
> from 1.5pre5) also links with libpthread.so.0, yet I don't get the bug.

Thanks, Benoit. That's useful information. What kernel versions are you
running (both Benoit and Rolf)? I believe this may be tickling a kernel
threads signal handling bug? Hence my suggestion about somehow avoiding
the whole threads issue (not a fix, I know, but a possible workaround).
 
> Rolf, you may wan't to try downgrading to OpenSP 1.3.x to see if it allows you 
> to avoid this bug like it does for Nigel, and report your findings.

That would be quite useful. Also, Rolf, could you try running gnucash
under strace and let us see the last dozen or so lines before it goes to
sleep.

Between us we'll get this one cracked :-)

Nigel