Bug 333483 – app-text/acroread-9.3.3: segmentation fault immediately upon execution

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bjarni Herjolfsson 2010-08-19 18:23:04 UTC]

When running acroread from the command line, it immediately fails with a segmentation fault. This happens in both the 9.3.3 and 9.3.2 versions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run acroread
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  
acroread runs.

Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.06GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       3.4.6-r2, 4.1.2, 4.3.4, 4.4.4-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ "
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
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.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amr apache2 berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cjk cli consolekit cpudetection cracklib crypt ctype cups cxx dbus dri dv dvd dvdr emacs encode ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gmp gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imlib ipv6 javascript jpeg kerberos kpathsea ldap mad mailwrapper mmap mmx mmxext modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session socks5 speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xine xml xorg xprint xulrunner xv xvid 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 cgi cgid 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" LINGUAS="en en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa via vga radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Bjarni Herjolfsson 2010-08-19 18:25:46 UTC]

Created attachment 243595 [details]
Output of the execution of "strace acroread 2> strace.txt"

[Comment 2 Bjarni Herjolfsson 2010-08-19 18:27:33 UTC]

acroread built with the following options: 

cups, ldap, linguas_en, nsplugin

[Comment 3 Mark R. Pariente 2010-08-27 02:06:41 UTC]

Running into the same issue, acroread 9.3.4 update today didn't solve it either. emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.35-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.35-gentoo-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6700_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:21 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.4-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.35
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
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="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
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"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/pro-audio /var/lib/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apm artworkextra asf avahi beagle berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cleartype cli cracklib crypt cscope cups cxx dbus divx dri dv dvd dvdr eds emerald encode esd evo exif fam flac fortran gdbm glitz gnome gpm gtk gtk2 iconv icq imap iphone ipod ipv6 jabber jack jpeg ldap mad mmx mmxext modules mono mozbranding mp3 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xosd xulrunner xv xvid 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 cgi cgid 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="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Common elements with the original poster: x86 system, -O3 present in CFLAGS.

[Comment 4 Mark R. Pariente 2010-09-01 04:31:56 UTC]

I've had some time to work on this so I've hooked acroread to GDB and identified which libraries it was crashing in. After some trial and error I've identified the culprit(s). Building glib (libgobject-2.0.so.0) and fontconfig (libfontconfig.so.1) with -O2 (instead of -O3) results in working acroread. This is good enough for me, so I'm not going to further debug which precise optimization flag causes the issue (-fcrazy-optimize!), but this could be a GCC bug, so it would be nice if someone follows up on it.

[Comment 5 Bjarni Herjolfsson 2010-09-02 04:20:26 UTC]

Just rebuilding media-libs/fontconfig-2.8.0 with the -O2 flag actually fixed it for me.

[Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-06-05 15:52:29 UTC]

Not in the tree anymore.