dpkg bus error on sparc/unstable: Re: Bits from the RM
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:01:14 -0500 (CDT),
> Adam Heath wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> >
> > > It was reported by joshk on IRC, but I'm not still clear where this
> > > problem come from. Example:
> > >
> > > ultra30:~> dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version
> > > Version: 2.3.2-3
> > > ultra30:~> dpkg -s dpkg | grep Version
> > > Version: 1.10.10
> > > ultra30:~> dpkg
> > > Bus error
> > >
> > > dpkg works well with some options, but only typing `dpkg' breaks with
> > > bus error. It's not related with the existence of libc6-sparc64.
> > > From tracking with gdb, dpkg breaks setjmp()/longjmp(). The
> > > mysterious thing is that it works fine to compile gcc-3.2/gcc-3.3
> > > without -O2 optimization. It's also ok with glibc 2.3.1-17, IIRC.
> >
> > Hmm. I'm reminded of a problem on s390x. 64-bit arch, but when dpkg was
> > initializing some variable, it only did it to the lower(or upper, can't
> > recall) 32 bits. Later, it blew up.
>
> dpkg works fine with trex.debian.org dchroot unstable + my self built
> 2.3.2-1 (2003-07-08 cvs) using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so it seems other
> issue.
>
> > It's too bad valgrind doesn't work on non-i386.
> >
> > Is there a debian machine I can access that has this problem? The last 2
> > times some odd issue came up like this, one turned out to be a dpkg
> > bug(s390x), and one was a multi-year old bug in libc6 assem(memcpy error, at
> > the end of the buffer, when using mmap, on alpha). In both cases, it didn't
> > take me long to track down(not more than half a day).
>
> Yes, you can check on vore.debian.org dchroot unstable.
>
> vore:~> dpkg
> Bus error
Well, if I compile lib/myopt.c and lib/startup.c, without -O2, I get no bus
error. Maybe this is a gcc issue?
--
(unstable)doogie@vore:~/dpkg-1.10.10$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm
--enable-java-awt=xlib --with-cpu=v7 --enable-objc-gc sparc-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 20030812 (Debian prerelease)
(unstable)doogie@vore:~/dpkg-1.10.10$ dpkg -s libc6
Version: 2.3.2-3
--
dpkg is 1.10.10.
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