Configuration crash - can't start new thread

[Ben Tay]

Hi,

I just tried but it's the same error. Any other suggestion?

thanks!




On 12/5/06, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You have a broken Python installation. You can work around this using
> the options --useThreads=0.
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Matt
>
> On 12/5/06, Ben Tay <zonexo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to compile the library on a linux sys (xeon). It gives the error
> > msg:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> *********************************************************************************
> >           CONFIGURATION CRASH  (Please send configure.log to
> > petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov)
> >
> *********************************************************************************
> >
> > can't start new thread
> >
> >   File "./config/configure.py", line 172, in petsc_configure
> >     framework =
> > config.framework.Framework(sys.argv[1:]+['--configModules=
> PETSc.Configure','--optionsModule=PETSc.compilerOptions'],
> > loadArgDB = 0)
> >   File
> > "/nas/hpctmp/g0306332/petsc-2.3.2-p7
> /python/BuildSystem/config/framework.py",
> > line 81, in __init__
> >     self.argDB['debugSections'] = ['screen']
> >   File "/nas/hpctmp/g0306332/petsc-2.3.2-p7
> /python/BuildSystem/RDict.py",
> > line 219, in __setitem__
> >     self.save()
> >   File "/nas/hpctmp/g0306332/petsc-2.3.2-p7
> /python/BuildSystem/RDict.py",
> > line 639, in save
> >     self.saveTimer.start()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py", line 396, in
> > start
> >     _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())
> >
> >
> > May I know what's wrong? I also can't find any configure.log file.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Regards
>
>
> --
> "Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one" -- Sir
> Alec Guiness
>
>
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