Re: Fwd: PS3/Gentoo Aranym builder needs help

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> Can anybody here help this guy out ? I corresponded with him when he
> had just got his ps3. now he is testing linux, beta of free version, and
> he is an old atari programmer. In case you didn't hear the news, Sony
> is looking to beat apple this year...
> 
> anyway if you could get a 3.5 ghz machine to run aranym for $600US ???
> (last i tried even my 0.550ppc-Debian  wasn't)
> ____________________________
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> 
> Building App with Gentoo / PS3 (PPC64) - 1 new
> ----------------------------------------------
> Hi, I'm in charge of building ARAnyM <[link]> on PlayStation3. I have a few
> difficulties. I use the experimental livecd with kboot from <[link]> The
> French keyboard configuration (AZERTY) is not available, and the key - Sat,
> May 26 2007 10:17 pm
> 1 message, 1 author
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.powerpc/t/c4d4a658b662e897?hl=en

I tried aranym (from Debian) on PS3, and it indeed crashes early with a
segmentation fault. Gdb and valgrind log below.

ARAnyM 0.9.4beta2
...
[PARALLEL] configuration: found 0 valid directives.
[NATFEATS] configuration: found 0 valid directives.
[NFVDI] configuration: found 0 valid directives.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -134368704 (LWP 23554)]
0x0fbf4184 in memcpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6

[NATFEATS] configuration: found 0 valid directives.
[NFVDI] configuration: found 0 valid directives.
==23594== Warning: set address range perms: large range 134217728 (defined)
==23594==
==23594== Invalid read of size 1
==23594==    at 0xFFBDF10: memcpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:406)
==23594==    by 0x1003BBAC: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1003C778: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1003C994: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1000453C: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x10004980: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x10005208: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0xFB48990: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so)
==23594==    by 0xFB48ACC: (below main) (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so)
==23594==  Address 0x38A90712 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==23594==
==23594== Invalid write of size 1
==23594==    at 0xFFBDF18: memcpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:406)
==23594==    by 0x1003BBAC: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1003C778: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1003C994: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1000453C: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x10004980: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x10005208: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0xFB48990: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so)
==23594==    by 0xFB48ACC: (below main) (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so)
==23594==  Address 0xEE3B1AFB is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==23594==
==23594== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
==23594==  Access not within mapped region at address 0xEE3B1AFB
==23594==    at 0xFFBDF18: memcpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:406)
==23594==    by 0x1003BBAC: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1003C778: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1003C994: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x1000453C: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x10004980: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0x10005208: (within /usr/bin/aranym-mmu)
==23594==    by 0xFB48990: (within /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so)
==23594==    by 0xFB48ACC: (below main) (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so)
==23594==
==23594== ERROR SUMMARY: 7 errors from 5 contexts (suppressed: 1 from 1)
==23594== malloc/free: in use at exit: 3,103,414 bytes in 5 blocks.
==23594== malloc/free: 42 allocs, 37 frees, 4,189,538 bytes allocated.
==23594== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
==23594== searching for pointers to 5 not-freed blocks.
==23594== checked 138,272,608 bytes.
==23594==
==23594== LEAK SUMMARY:
==23594==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==23594==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==23594==    still reachable: 3,103,414 bytes in 5 blocks.
==23594==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==23594== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown.
==23594== To see them, rerun with: --show-reachable=yes
Segmentation fault

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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