Bug#634261: iceweasel 5.0 does not start on sparc, bus error
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> reassign 634261 libc6
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:34:48PM +0300, Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 5.0-3
> > Severity: grave
> >
> >
> > The new iceweasel fails to start on sparc64. It crashes before
> > it gets anywhere, so removing ~/.mozilla has no effect.
> > Here's some debugging output:
>
> Is that the sparc64 build or the sparc build?
>
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin
> > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> >
> > Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> > 0xf7d57718 in _IO_default_setbuf (fp=0xf7e57114, p=0x0, len=0) at genops.c:575
> > 575 genops.c: No such file or directory.
> > in genops.c
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 0xf7d57718 in _IO_default_setbuf (fp=0xf7e57114, p=0x0, len=0)
> > at genops.c:575
> > #1 0xf7e161f4 in _IO_old_file_setbuf (fp=0xf7e57114, p=0x0, len=0)
> > at oldfileops.c:265
> > #2 0xf7d4ba68 in _IO_setbuffer (fp=0xf7e57114, buf=0x0,
> > size=<value optimized out>) at iosetbuffer.c:44
> > #3 0xf67d8e34 in XRE_main (argc=1, argv=0xffffda44, aAppData=0xf79347c0)
> > at ../../../toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:2780
>
> Note this line is:
> SetupErrorHandling(argv[0]);
>
> which actually does:
> setbuf(stdout, 0);
>
> So the top frames are in the libc. That suggests a serious problem with the libc.
>
The problem is caused by the following code (genops.c:575):
fp->_IO_write_base = fp->_IO_write_ptr = fp->_IO_write_end = 0;
Translated by the compiler into:
0xf7d57714 <+148>: clr [ %i0 + 0x18 ]
0xf7d57718 <+152>: clrx [ %i0 + 0x10 ]
In other words by a 32-bit access and a 64-bit access. The compiler is
allowed on sparc, as malloc is guaranteed to return 8-byte memory.
The thing I still don't understand here, is why fp = stdout = 0xf7e57114
is not aligned. fopen() is using malloc() internally, so the resulting
pointer should be aligned. Does iceweasel play with the alignment in a
bad way there?
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