Le Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:08:35 +0100, Nicolas Calimet a modifié des petits
morceaux de l'univers pour nous faire lire :

>> "Timed out waiting for worker thread startup"
> 
> 	This indeed seems to happen on Fedora 8 and some current gentoo 
distro
> at least.  Others such as Debian or Ubuntu usually work.  At the moment
> I can't tell what might cause the problem, i.e. whether it has to do
> with libc, boost, the system thread library or else  :-/
> 
> 	- NC

Yes. I confirm that.
I'm on gentoo amd64 (~amd64: unstable), and it looks like it can run once 
then fails.
Even invoking only "povray --version" does produce this issue: first time 
is ok, next are "Timed out".

My setting is

# ./configure COMPILED_BY=... --disable-io-restrictions
(... is a place holder)
# make check
# make install


Even adding --disable-optimiz-arch does not change the issue.

A reboot (it's a bit hard) allow one run.
I made a ps before first run, then after second (failed) run: no lagging 
process.

The trigger seems to be in vfesession.cpp vfeSession::Initialize

Might it be related to a resume state ?
Shouldn't this issue have it's own thread ?

even the sequence:
# ./configure ....
# make check
# make check

would trigger the issue.
Any suggestion how I could help ?

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