On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:43:01 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> What version on the crashing pan? [....]
The one that's failing under F 17 is 0.137, and what I'm posting
with is 0.135 under F 16.
> I do know that there was release with a bug that could result in
> crashing due to thread-handling race conditions, etc, then very quickly
> another release, however. The bad release was 0.136, on April 8, the
> fixed one was 0.137, May 1, less than a month later.
>
> I believe the race conditions had technically been there for some time,
> 0.136 didn't really introduce them, but it did ship with a lot of new
> code, including binary uploading, ssl connections, pgp handling, etc,
> and apparently one or more of those new features tickled the existing
> race conditions, making them no longer corner-case and MUCH easier to
> trigger. That would be how it was discovered or at least how it could
> now be reproduced and thus fixed, since it wasn't so corner-case
> hard-to-
> trigger any more.
>
> So if you ended up with 0.136, do consider upgrading to 0.137... or
> reverting to 0.135.
I don't think I've even seen 0.135; so maybe the problem snuck
back somehow??
> And if that's the problem, thanks. You'd be the first to report it here
> anyway, and knowing that a bad version shipped with a distro helps if we
> get any further reports of the problem.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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