[vpn-help] Solution for Assertion `type == PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK_NP' failed

[Alexis La Goutte]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the "tips"...

Cheers,

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Mi Re <mireatwork at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I did not find a solution for the mentioned problem here, so I'm posting
> it.
>
> The error seems to be related to Intel's TSX extensions and specifically
> HLE (Hardware Lock Elision). Some Broadwell and Haswell processors have
> faulty implementations of these extensions and were later disabled by Intel
> through microcode updates.
>
> There are two possible solutions for Linux users:
>
> Solution 1 (the easy one): Install the latest "intel-ucode" (on Arch
> Linux) or "intel-microcode" (Ubuntu) and reboot. Check for
> distribution-specific steps first. If you're lucky, iked should now run
> fine.
>
> If the error is still present, continue reading.
>
> Solution 2 (the not-so-easy one): You need to rebuild your glibc package
> without Lock Elision enabled. For Arch Linux, the steps are the following:
>
> ==========
> $ sudo abs core
> $ cp -r /var/abs/core/glibc /tmp
> $ cd /tmp/glibc
>
> ( PKGBUILD: remove the line containing --enable-lock-elision with sed:)
>
> $ sed -i '/--enable-lock-elision/d' PKGBUILD
> $ makepkg
> ==========
>
> You then can either install the glibc globally for your system by
> executing:
>
> $ sudo pacman -U /tmp/glibc/glibc-whatever.pkg.tar.xz
>
> or you unpack the built glibc package to some location that you like and
> use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH mechanism to override the libs used by iked
> everytime you start iked:
>
> $ sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LOCATION_OF_UNPACKED_TAR/usr/lib iked
>
> With that, iked should start without any problems.
>
> Instructions for other distributions on rebuilding glibc vary, but I hope
> you got the idea of what needs to be done.
>
> I hope I could help some other Users out there.
>
> Thanks also to knotty66 and shuairan from the Arch User Repository.
>
>
> Regards
> Mike
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