Re: [Nautilus-list] Component Crash Problems

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 23 Feb 2002, Andrew Burr wrote:

> I am having trouble getting a rpm component to work properly. I am hoping 
> that someone can help me, so I can continue working on it. Right now I am stumped.
> 
> When I take out the calls to rpmlib, the component acts properly. But when I add 
> the rpmlib calls the component crashes upon loading. I have tried the 
> sequence of rpmlib calls outside the component in a stand alone binary and it 
> works fine. Are there issues with using shared libraries, file descriptors, etc 
> inside a component?
> 
> Anyone have an idea what is going wrong here? 

I didn't look closely at the code, but an educated guess would be that 
it is a threading problem. librpm is not threadsafe to my knowledge.

/ Alex