Threading madness

[Geoffrey Talvola]

Lane LiaBraaten wrote:
> I am developing a GUI that uses multiple threading.Threads, and
> Queue.Queues for communicating between the threads, and
> threading.Timers for checking the queues.
> 
> Everything works well (runs to completion and exits) on my RedHat7.3
> machine, but it doesn't work (hangs like some thread or queue is
> blocking)on RH9. However, when I ssh into the RH9 box from my RH7.3
> box, the app runs fine (on my RH7.3 screen).
> 
> Now the madness sets in...if I compile the .py into a .pyc, and then
> run the .pyc the app works fine on both machines.
> 
> So any ideas on what could be going on here?
> 

This may be your problem:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86416

The workaround is to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19

- Geoff