[lttng-dev] libust "Error: Error opening shm" every ~4 seconds if HOME variable is not set

[David OShea]

Hi Mathieu,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathieu Desnoyers [mailto:mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:12 PM
> To: David OShea
> Cc: lttng-dev at lists.lttng.org
> Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] libust "Error: Error opening shm" every ~4
> seconds if HOME variable is not set
[...]
> Thanks for reporting! Can you try with stable-2.0 branch or master
> branch head ?
> 
> Here are the commits:
> 
> stable-2.0:
> 
> commit e699eda9762d3cf3b0c40329eb3b6ce0947789dc
> Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 29 21:39:42 2012 -0400
> 
>     Cleanup: don't spawn per-user thread if HOME is not set
> 
>     Reported-by: David OShea <David.OShea at quantum.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com>
> 
> master:
> 
> commit 9ec6895c5633ed93c5acdf1e5b06f075fbd709d3
> Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 29 21:39:42 2012 -0400
> 
>     Cleanup: don't spawn per-user thread if HOME is not set
> 
>     Reported-by: David OShea <David.OShea at quantum.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com>

Thanks for that!  Patching e699eda into the 2.0.5 release fixed the issue.

Regards,
David

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