Firefox with "Spinlock" error

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Jan 9 18:17:04 PST 2005


On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:47:46PM +0000, Ned Harrison wrote:
> I keep getting this error when I try to start Firefox:  
> 
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in 
> file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0)
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> I read from a November post that this was related to out of date files in the 
> ~/.mozilla directory.

No.  It's related to being linked to multiple thread libraries, see
/usr/src/UPDATING.

Kris
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