diff -wruN -x '*~' -x '*.o' -x '*.a' -x '*.so' -x '*.so.[0-9]' -x autom4te.cache -x .deps -x .libs ../orig-liblmdb/configure.ac ./configure.ac
--- ../orig-liblmdb/configure.ac	2014-07-28 17:44:41.873398363 +0200
+++ ./configure.ac	2014-07-28 17:47:06.143497590 +0200
@@ -11,5 +11,12 @@ m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 m4_ifdef([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR])
 LT_INIT
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/file.h])
+AC_CHECK_LIB([pthread], [pthread_mutex_lock])
+AC_CHECK_LIB([pthreadGC2], [pthread_mutex_lock])
+AS_IF([test "$ac_cv_lib_pthread" = "no" && test "$ac_cv_lib_pthreadGC2" = "no"],
+[
+  AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find pthreads library])
+])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([pthread_mutexattr_settype pthread_mutexattr_setrobust])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
 AC_OUTPUT
diff -wruN -x '*~' -x '*.o' -x '*.a' -x '*.so' -x '*.so.[0-9]' -x autom4te.cache -x .deps -x .libs ../orig-liblmdb/mdb.c ./mdb.c
--- ../orig-liblmdb/mdb.c	2014-01-31 09:23:13.341427766 +0100
+++ ./mdb.c	2014-07-28 17:44:55.145959267 +0200
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ extern int cacheflush(char *addr, int nbytes, int cache);
 #define MDB_USE_HASH	1
 #define MDB_PIDLOCK	0
 #define THREAD_RET	DWORD
+#define EOWNERDEAD      130
 #define pthread_t	HANDLE
 #define pthread_mutex_t	HANDLE
 #define pthread_cond_t	HANDLE
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ extern int cacheflush(char *addr, int nbytes, int cache);
 #define pthread_getspecific(x)	TlsGetValue(x)
 #define pthread_setspecific(x,y)	(TlsSetValue(x,y) ? 0 : ErrCode())
 #define pthread_mutex_unlock(x)	ReleaseMutex(*x)
-#define pthread_mutex_lock(x)	WaitForSingleObject(*x, INFINITE)
+#define pthread_mutex_lock(x)	(WaitForSingleObject(x, INFINITE) == WAIT_ABANDONED ? EOWNERDEAD : 0) // masks FAIL and TIMEOUT error, but acceptable
 #define pthread_cond_signal(x)	SetEvent(*x)
 #define pthread_cond_wait(cond,mutex)	do{SignalObjectAndWait(*mutex, *cond, INFINITE, FALSE); WaitForSingleObject(*mutex, INFINITE);}while(0)
 #define THREAD_CREATE(thr,start,arg)	thr=CreateThread(NULL,0,start,arg,0,NULL)
@@ -2529,7 +2530,20 @@ mdb_txn_renew0(MDB_txn *txn)
 					env->me_live_reader = 1;
 				}
 
-				LOCK_MUTEX_R(env);
+				rc = LOCK_MUTEX_R(env);
+                                switch (rc)
+				{
+				case 0:
+					break;
+#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETROBUST
+				case EOWNERDEAD:
+					// we cannot recover the state, so mark mutex as unusable
+					UNLOCK_MUTEX_R(env);
+					// FALLTHROUGH
+#endif
+				default:
+					return MDB_PANIC;
+				}
 				nr = ti->mti_numreaders;
 				for (i=0; i<nr; i++)
 					if (ti->mti_readers[i].mr_pid == 0)
@@ -2563,7 +2577,20 @@ mdb_txn_renew0(MDB_txn *txn)
 		txn->mt_dbxs = env->me_dbxs;	/* mostly static anyway */
 	} else {
 		if (ti) {
-			LOCK_MUTEX_W(env);
+			rc = LOCK_MUTEX_W(env);
+                        switch (rc)
+                        {
+                        case 0:
+                                break;
+#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETROBUST
+                        case EOWNERDEAD:
+                                // we cannot recover the state, so mark mutex as unusable
+                                UNLOCK_MUTEX_W(env);
+                                // FALLTHROUGH
+#endif
+                        default:
+                                return MDB_PANIC;
+                        }
 
 			txn->mt_txnid = ti->mti_txnid;
 			meta = env->me_metas[txn->mt_txnid & 1];
@@ -4458,6 +4485,12 @@ mdb_env_setup_locks(MDB_env *env, char *lpath, int mode, int *excl)
 		pthread_mutexattr_t mattr;
 
 		if ((rc = pthread_mutexattr_init(&mattr))
+#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE
+                        || (rc = pthread_mutexattr_settype(&mattr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK))
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETROBUST
+                        || (rc = pthread_mutexattr_setrobust(&mattr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST))
+#endif
 			|| (rc = pthread_mutexattr_setpshared(&mattr, PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED))
 			|| (rc = pthread_mutex_init(&env->me_txns->mti_mutex, &mattr))
 			|| (rc = pthread_mutex_init(&env->me_txns->mti_wmutex, &mattr)))