Re: [libvirt] In freeze for libvirt-0.9.8 and availability of rc2

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 04:10:34PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: >> On 12/02/2011 01:42 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:11:24PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >>>> But that means we really are committing to an rc2. >>> Definitely. For example there is apparently a problem with commit >>> fa9595003d043df9f2efe95521c00898cef27106 that we ough to fix quickly too >>> to allow further testing :-) >>> >>> Daniel >>> >> The problem was caused by two threads that both were thinking they >> are having the buck and entering poll() which caused some clients to >> hang. It was possible due to a race condition and therefore was not >> 100% reproducible. It should be fixed now with: >> http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00116.html > Indeed, the current git head works fine again for me, thanks a lot > for chasing this :-) > > So I made an second release candidate available at: > > ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.9.8-rc2.tar.gz > > along with rpms, I also tagged git with it. > Hopefully the builds on BSD and Windows should be fixed, it would > be good if it could be tested on OsX and since there was a build done > last month on Android, I wonder if this could be done again [1]. Thre is something very broken in the RPC code when an event loop is activated, which is resulting in frequent crashes. Fixing this is a release blocker IMHO. Attaching a demo program which crashes 50% of the time or more with GIT head. Daniel