Issue 11148: Crash and error message from Python VM

Quite often, I got the following message printed out the console while I run my Python script

pthread_cond_signal: Undefined error: 0

Or it crashed

https://gist.github.com/799841

Tested with Python 2.6.1 and 2.6.6 (Mac)

What I am trying to do is to set up a logging component that collects all messages sent from child processes to a pipe created by the parent process. The logging component is controlled by a thread created by parent process

Can you provide a script that shows the problem? Without such a script it will be hard to reproduce, and fix, this problem.

I just simplified my script into a smaller one that can be easier to understand and find out what happens

https://gist.github.com/819979

Thanks

I think this issue is related to http://bugs.python.org/issue11158, which is in turn related to http://bugs.python.org/issue6721 (Locks in python standard library should be sanitized on fork).

When  a mutex created by a parent process is used from within a child process, this can lead not only to a deadlock, but also to SIGSEGV.

To understand the purpose of pthread_atfork, recall that fork duplicates the whole memory space, including mutexes in their current locking state, but only the calling thread: other threads are not running in the child process. The mutexes are not usable after the fork and must be initialized with pthread_mutex_init in the child process. This is a limitation of the current implementation and might or might not be present in future versions.

They must be initialized.

Suggesting to close both #11148 and #11158 as dupe of #6721.

I agree this is a duplicate of #6721. I'm therefore closing this issue.

resolution: duplicate
stage: resolved

components: + macOS
assignee: ronaldoussoren