Bug#977810: biber: Fails with exit code 9 - panic: MUTEX_LOCK (22) [Magic.xs:525] during global destruction.
Package: biber
Version: 2.15-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian@pa-w.de
Dear Maintainer,
when running biber, it fails at properly destructing its objects,
leading to an exit code of 9 (and therefore, breaking any other programs
that call biber themselves).
This can be reproduced with arbitrary TeX and bibliography files. From a
minimal example:
$ biber example
INFO - This is Biber 2.15
INFO - Logfile is 'example.blg'
INFO - Reading 'example.bcf'
INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'bibliography.bib' for section 0
INFO - LaTeX decoding ...
INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'bibliography.bib'
INFO - Overriding locale 'en-US' defaults 'normalization = NFD' with 'normalization = prenormalized'
INFO - Overriding locale 'en-US' defaults 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
INFO - Sorting list 'nty/global//global/global' of type 'entry' with template 'nty' and locale 'en-US'
INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en-US'
INFO - Writing 'example.bbl' with encoding 'UTF-8'
INFO - Output to example.bbl
panic: MUTEX_LOCK (22) [Magic.xs:525] during global destruction.
$ echo $?
9
Except for the non-zero return value and the panic message, it does work
as expected; i.e., the required output files are correctly created.
However, for example when compiling a TeX file, the latexmk process requires
multiple attempts as the first attempt is aborted due to the "failing" biber
call.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages biber depends on:
ii libautovivification-perl 0.18-1+b3
ii libbusiness-isbn-perl 3.005-1
ii libbusiness-ismn-perl 1.201-1
ii libbusiness-issn-perl 1.004-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libdata-compare-perl 1.27-1
ii libdata-dump-perl 1.23-1
ii libdata-uniqid-perl 0.12-1
ii libdate-simple-perl 3.0300-3+b1
ii libdatetime-calendar-julian-perl 0.102-1
ii libdatetime-format-builder-perl 0.8300-1
ii libdatetime-perl 2:1.53-1
ii libencode-eucjpms-perl 0.07-3+b9
ii libencode-hanextra-perl 0.23-5+b3
ii libencode-jis2k-perl 0.03-1+b7
ii libfile-slurper-perl 0.012-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii liblingua-translit-perl 0.28-1
ii liblist-allutils-perl 0.18-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2
ii liblog-log4perl-perl 1.53-1
ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.09-1
ii libparse-recdescent-perl 1.967015+dfsg-2
ii libreadonly-perl 2.050-2
ii libregexp-common-perl 2017060201-1
ii libsort-key-perl 1.33-2+b3
ii libtext-bibtex-perl 0.88-3+b2
ii libtext-csv-perl 2.00-1
ii libtext-csv-xs-perl 1.44-1+b1
ii libtext-roman-perl 3.5-2
ii libunicode-linebreak-perl 0.0.20190101-1+b3
ii liburi-perl 5.05-1
ii libwww-perl 6.49-1
ii libxml-libxml-simple-perl 1.01-1
ii libxml-libxslt-perl 1.99-1+b1
ii libxml-writer-perl 0.900-1
ii perl [libunicode-collate-perl] 5.32.0-6
ii tex-common 6.15
Versions of packages biber recommends:
ii texlive-bibtex-extra 2020.20201129-1
biber suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Reply to: