Hi Mike,

thanks *a lot* - activating GLOBUS_RSL_MODULE actually solved my problem! I 
would have never guessed that! I'm just don't understand why my code worked 
without it for the past 2 years and with various Globus versions. Did you make 
any changes to the GRAM client code? 

Cheers,
Ole

On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Michael Link wrote:

> Hey Ole,
> 
> Did you activate GLOBUS_RSL_MODULE 
> [globus_module_activate(GLOBUS_RSL_MODULE)]?  If you did, I don't see how 
> that mutex wouldn't be initialized unless there is other memory corruption 
> involved.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Mon 9/20/2010 12:28 PM, Ole Weidner wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm using the GRAM C API to submit jobs to GRAM2/GRAM5 endpoints. I have 
>> recently updated to Globus Toolkit 5.0.2 and now my code always seems to 
>> fail with the same error:
>> 
>> t140735077411872:p80658: Fatal error: [Thread System] GLOBUSTHREAD: 
>> pthread_mutex_lock() failed
>> 
>> Some debugging shows that the problem seems to come from 
>> globus_rsl_parser.y:261 (which is triggered by 
>> globus_gram_client_job_request() in my application code):
>> 
>> 252 globus_rsl_t *globus_rsl_parse(char *buf)
>> 253 {
>> 254    globus_rsl_t *                      rsl = NULL;
>> 255
>> 256    if (!buf)
>> 257    {
>> 258        goto null_buf;
>> 259    }
>> 260
>> 261    globus_mutex_lock(&globus_i_rsl_mutex);
>> 262    if (parse_state.error_structure)
>> 263    {
>> 264        parse_state.error_structure->code = 0;
>> 265    }
>> 
>> Apparently, globus_i_rsl_mutex is *not* initialized! If I pass NULL as rsl 
>> buffer in my application code, globus_rsl_parse() dosn't try to acquire the 
>> lock (instead 258: goto null_buf) and I don't get any [Thread System] errors 
>> anymore. Of course the job submission fails with a NULL-string RSL.
>> 
>> Is this a known bug? Is there a way to work around it? I've noticed that the 
>> Globus CMD-line tools work just fine. Would it be possible to fix it for the 
>> next Globus release (should be as easy as initialize the mutex)?
>> 
>> I'm working on MacOS 10.6 8-way, Globus flavor: gcc64dbgpthr.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ole

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