ok, i'll ask on the gearman list if it is deemed appropriate. however, i'm pretty sure this is a debian thing. any ideas?
swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18# gearmand -vvv -u root INFO [ main ] Starting up FATAL [ main ] Multi-threaded gearmand requires libevent 1.4 or later, libevent 1.3 does not provided a thread-safe interface. -> libgearman-server/gearmand.c:281 INFO [ main ] Shutting down all threads INFO [ main ] Shutdown complete swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18# apt-cache show libevent-dev Package: libevent-dev Priority: optional Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 524 Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <ani...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Source: libevent Version: 1.4.13-stable-1 Depends: libevent-1.4-2 (= 1.4.13-stable-1), libevent-core-1.4-2 (= 1.4.13-stable-1), libevent-extra-1.4-2 (= 1.4.13-stable-1) Filename: pool/main/libe/libevent/libevent-dev_1.4.13-stable-1_amd64.deb Size: 171174 MD5sum: 8614df2c733ea960ef116d4278c2fb36 SHA1: 2d164c0148ee684956720c075d0b0ebde749dc7d SHA256: 422af31174f949e3f9b7bb9887edf9ebc77aa0e25b4cb71d49d6ebcc57c89af5 Description: Development libraries, header files and docs for libevent Contains the header files, documentation, examples and static libraries for use in developing applications that use the libevent library. . The libevent library is an asynchronous event notification library that provides a mechanish to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Homepage: http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib, works-with::software:running swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18# apt-get install libevent-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libevent-dev is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18# apt-get install libevent-extra-1.4.2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'libevent-extra-1.4-2' for regex 'libevent-extra-1.4.2' libevent-extra-1.4-2 is already the newest version. libevent-extra-1.4-2 set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18# apt-get install libevent1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libevent1 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18#