Configuration crash - can't start new thread

[Satish Balay]

What linux is this? Just get python sources from http://python.org/
[sugest python-2.4] - and install your own copy - and try with it.

configure python with:
./configure --prefix=${HOME}/python-2.4
make 
make install

And configure PETSc with:
${HOME}/python-2.4/bin/python config/configure.py

Satish


On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ben Tay wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
>