Pleroma, erlang problem.

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On 2/3/21 7:51 AM, Jacques Foucry wrote:

> Since this upgrade, Pleroma does not start and it seems it's an erlang
> problem.
> 
> When I try run launch is by hand, it fail:
> 
> MIX_ENV=prod mix phx.server
> ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/erlang/erts-10.3.5.15/bin/beam.smp: Undefined symbol "pthread_setname_np at FBSD_1.6"
> 
> I did not know anythіng about erlang. Could it be a bug on it?
> 
> I use a poudriere. I recompile erlang, look at threard options, all are
> checked.


Well, apparently it links to a shared library, which means some symbols 
have to be resolved when erlang is run. Apparently erlang (I guess an 
executable "beam.smp") tries to call a function pthread_name_np() that's 
not in any shared library included in the original link.

Posix thread functions are in a separate library. Is beam.smp linked 
with -lpthread? It probably is. See "man pthread".

Functions pthread_*_np are non-portable FreeBSD extensions to the Posix 
thread standard. They could come and go across releases, virtual 
machines, and so on -- though pthread_setname_np() has a man page on my 
13-CURRENT system.

The rest of that undefined symbol -- the part "@FBSD_1.6" -- is a 
mystery to me. It looks like a version number of an ancient FreeBSD, but 
I've never heard of such version numbers being included in symbols. I 
don't know what that's about.

That function sets the name of a Posix thread. Probably erlang would run 
fine without setting those names. If the trouble is just that function 
is missing, and the standard Posix thread functions are present and 
linked, then, as a crude, short-term workaround, if you're willing to 
modify the source code slightly, you could remove calls to that function.