Need help: xsltproc segfaulting on sparc64
Hi!
We have a rather annoying issue with xsltproc on sparc64 which almost
always segfaults when processing input files. As a result, packages
like systemd fail to build since xsltproc is called at some point to
generate the manpages [1]:
/usr/bin/xsltproc -o man/bootup.7 --nonet --xinclude --stringparam
man.output.quietly 1 --stringparam funcsynopsis.style ansi --stringparam
man.authors.section.enabled 0 --stringparam
man.copyright.section.enabled 0 --stringparam systemd.version 228 --path
'./man:../man' ../man/custom-man.xsl ../man/bootup.xml
make[4]: *** [man/bootup.7] Segmentation fault
A commenter in the upstream bug tracker suggested this might be
an issue with older Linux kernels [2] and since all our production
buildds still run Debian Wheezy (sparc) with a 3.2.0 kernel,
I thought this might be correct and I therefore didn't want
to jump too quickly to blame xsltproc before I have verified
that.
However, today I made a test build of systemd on a fully native
sparc64 system with Linux 4.3.3 and an up-to-date Debian
unstable on Anatoly's SPARC T5 server, with the same result [3]:
/usr/bin/xsltproc -o man/bootup.7 --nonet --xinclude --stringparam
man.output.quietly 1 --stringparam funcsynopsis.style ansi --stringparam
man.authors.section.enabled 0 --stringparam
man.copyright.section.enabled 0 --stringparam systemd.version 228 --path
'./man:../man' ../man/custom-man.xsl ../man/bootup.xml
Makefile:21813: recipe for target 'man/bootup.7' failed
I can _sometimes_ alleviate the problem by removing /dev/shm
and recreating it with 777 permissions as suggested in [4], but that
doesn't always work and it's not really a good solution in the long
time.
Since this problem affects many packages which use xsltproc
for manpage processing, it would be quite important to have
this issue resolved.
Does anybody have the time and skills to look into this issue?
Thanks,
Adrian
> [1]
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=systemd&arch=sparc64&ver=228-2%2Bb1&stamp=1451533316
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736077#c9
> [3]
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/systemd_228-2_sparc64-20151231-1419.build
> [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750593#76
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