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Re: Unable to fork off sideband demultiplexer

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 1, 2011, 17:35 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:15:54AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Randy Brandenburg <randy.brandenburg@woh.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > # git push
> > error: cannot create thread: Unknown error 
> 
> Perhaps threading library does not really work on your platform? Does
> rebuilding git with "make NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease" help?

I suspect it is more subtle than that. We've had several people recently reporting the same issue, and all are using pre-built binaries on Solaris 9. Given the weird errno value ("unknown error"), my guess is that the packages are built on Solaris 10, and there is some ABI incompatibility between the two platforms.

I'd be curious if building on Solaris 9, even without NO_PTHREADS set, fixes the issue.

-Peff
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