Bug 310283 – zlib-1.2.4 is broken

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marcin Kowalski 2010-03-19 20:21:53 UTC]

after installing new zlib, elinks hangs on opening pages from servers with gz support, firefox as well (it looks like clicking the links does nothing).

manually installing vanilla zlib-1.2.4 (no patches) seems to fix the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install zlib-1.2.4
2. try various sites with elinks or firefox
3. the open, but deeper links do nothing, or they do not open at all.
4. install zlib-1.2.4 by hand, restart firefox
5. sites start working again
6. reinstall zlib 1.2.4 from portage, restart firefox
7. sites are broken again

etc etc
Actual Results:  
browsers do not respond to certain links, firefox hangs at "loading"

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-19 20:33:32 UTC]

post emerge --info   (and see if this is a duplicate of bug 270120)

[Comment 2 Marcin Kowalski 2010-03-19 21:09:06 UTC]

emerge --info

Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-zen2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.33-zen2-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3800+-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:20 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p2
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.0-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6-r1, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.33
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="pl_PL.UTF8"
LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

checking the mentioned bug now.

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-19 21:19:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> checking the mentioned bug now.

Easy way to be sure is to drop "-O2 -march=athlon64-sse3" and try something like "-O2 -march=athlon64" or even "-O1 -march=athlon64" for zlib compilation...

[Comment 4 Marcin Kowalski 2010-03-21 09:26:44 UTC]

no, the proposed solution doesn't help. 

i think it's an elinks-only bug, related to new zlib. i'll try posting a new one, about elinks.

firefox actually works, but it takes a bit longer to display the page.