In article <20021119175556.4b80dc3b.rob@tuna.nl>,
Rob Hoopman <rob@tuna.nl> wrote:

This is a well known [but not well understood :-(] problem. The thread
that you see spinning, spins because a different thread got a segfault.
We are getting this under linux emulation. Is this under svr4 emulation?

christos

>
>Sadly, this is always, as in with any program I run*. If I run the some
>program twice it will not hang at the same point. NetBeans for example
>will sometimes hang immediately after hitting return and sometimes (very
>rarely) it gets as far as starting to draw some widgets. Most of the
>time it is somewhere in between.
>When I ktrace it, all programs are always stuck at rt_sigsuspend().
>
>*I would guess if I run a short "Hello World" type program it would be
>possible that it exits cleanly before it gets stuck, I haven't tried
>that yet.
>
>Rob
>