179877 – kde-base/arts-3.5.5 crashes with bus error on startup on sparc

Bug 179877 - kde-base/arts-3.5.5 crashes with bus error on startup on sparc

Summary: kde-base/arts-3.5.5 crashes with bus error on startup on sparc

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] KDE (show other bugs)
Hardware:	Sparc Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team

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Blocks:	unaligned-access
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Reported:	2007-05-26 13:31 UTC by Guido Winkelmann
Modified:	2023-05-08 17:28 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Guido Winkelmann 2007-05-26 13:31:42 UTC

kde-base/arts-3.5.5 crashes on startup with the error message "bus error" on an ultrasparc machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "artsd" in commandline
Actual Results:  
The error message "bus error" appears, the program terminates

Expected Results:  
artsd should fork into background and keep running

The crash happens with artsd -a alsa, artsd -a oss, artsd -a none, artsd -A, but not with artsd -h

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 sparc64 sun4u
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:30:10 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.19.2-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac aiglx alsa arts audiofile bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cli cracklib crypt cups doc dri encode fam flac fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k libg++ midi mp3 musepack nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pcre pdf png ppds pppd qt3 reflection sdl session sparc speex spell spl ssl theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis x264 xcomposite xinerama xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="sunffb fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure

2007-05-28 14:54:31 UTC

As the KDE team has little interest on ARTS and there's little that can be done by downstream, I suggest you take this to KDE. If you open a bug there about this issue, please leave a link here.