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Conference turris::decladebug

Title:Digital Ladebug debugger
Moderator:TLE::LUCIA
Created:Fri Feb 28 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:969
Total number of notes:3959

944.0. "Pthread context initialization failed with status 99. " by TLE::KIMBALL (Keith Kimball 381-0573) Thu May 01 1997 19:05

On a 4.0b java patch system, I received the following message:
> jitd
Welcome to the Ladebug Debugger Version 4.0-36
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object file name: /usr/users/kimball/jit/bin/jit
Reading symbolic information ...done
(ladebug) stop in  RuntimeRoutines::ThrowNewClass
[#1: stop in void RuntimeRoutines::ThrowNewClass(JavaClass*) ]
(ladebug) run bug1
Pthread context initialization failed with status 99.
Unable to switch to decthreads mode.
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944.1DCETHD::BUTENHOFDave Butenhof, DECthreadsFri May 02 1997 11:2011
I've often seen failures to initially set $threadlevel="decthreads". This may
be a result of ladebug trying to get into libpthreaddebug before the target
process is fully initialized. Although I'm not entirely sure what (or where)
the problem is, I do know that we (DECthreads) handle this much better on
PTmin, and I haven't seen these problems in the later code.

Usually when I've seen this problem on 4.0B and before, I've been able to
manually set $threadlevel="decthreads" after hitting a breakpoint, and it
works fine.

	/dave
944.2TLE::BRETTFri May 02 1997 13:313
This problem seems to happen much more often on a JAVA-patched 4.0B system.

/Bevin