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r_j_h

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From: Bletchley, UK

Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 19

Sempahore broken? [solved]

My imagemagick (or semaphores?) seems broken...

[root@one ~]# convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.5.7-5 2009-11-08 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP 

convert: magick/semaphore.c:220: DestroySemaphoreInfo: Assertion `(*semaphore_info) != (SemaphoreInfo *) ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted

I have tried pacman -Rd imagemagic and pacman -Syu - I'm now running out of ideas, Can anyone tell me what might be causing this on a fairly new (i.e: only just installed last week) system?

Many thanks,

Richard.

Last edited by r_j_h (2010-03-06 19:05:27)

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

Posts: 859

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Re: Sempahore broken? [solved]

Probably a bug in imagemagick.  What architecture are you on?  It works here on x86-64.  Also, why are you running it as root?

r_j_h

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From: Bletchley, UK

Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 19

Re: Sempahore broken? [solved]

(Solved)

I'm running as root; because I build the system to my liking then create a user for normal use. I was investigating why convert -version was crashing dvdrip.

I noticed a version difference between this and my laptop; even though both were fully up to date. After checking and tweaking /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist it appears that a mirror (probably ftp://mirrors.uk2.net/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/i686??) was quite out of date. Re-running pacman -Syu suddenly requested ~300MB of updates. One of these must have done the trick.

Seems odd that an official mirror should be so far out of sync - but I'm glad I managed to solve it.

Thanks anyway.