NOTE: I think this it a duplicate of 355861. If that's the case, however, it looks the problem is more widespread than qemu alone, so I am opening it as a new bug mentioning Firefox and Virtualbox in the subject to help further searches. DESCRIPTION: compilation of "huge" packages worked fine on my systems with gcc-4.4 but fails with 4.5 throwing an OOM. This was especially true of VirtualBox, where I could switch back to gcc-4.4 to compile it. Since then, I have completely removed gcc-4.4 from my system(s), and I am using the stable gcc-4.5. Today I tried to compile the new stable Firefox (8.0) and it died twice, always ending due to a OOM killing the linker. I don't have the VirtualBox logs anymore, but I will attach the firefox ones. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge [table gcc] 2. gcc-config [set it, if unset] 3. emerge firefox | emerge virtualbox Actual Results: The emerge process exits with an error. Expected Results: The emerge process completes successfully. gentoo-vm ~ # emerge -pqv =www-client/firefox-8.0 [ebuild U ] www-client/firefox-8.0 [7.0.1-r1] USE="alsa crashreporter dbus ipc webm -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -libnotify -pgo -startup-notification -system-sqlite -wifi" LINGUAS="-af -ak -ar -ast -be -bg -bn -bn_BD -bn_IN -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en_GB -en_US -en_ZA -eo -es -es_AR -es_CL -es_ES -es_MX -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gd -gl -gu -gu_IN -he -hi -hi_IN -hr -hu -hy -hy_AM -id -is -it -ja -kk -kn -ko -ku -lg -lt -lv -mai -mk -ml -mr -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -nso -or -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv -sv_SE -ta -ta_LK -te -th -tr -uk -vi -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" luca@gentoo-vm ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.0.6-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.6-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:15:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" 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="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/portage/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/mnt/portage/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="/mnt/portage/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/portage/portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa berkdb bzip2 cli consolekit cracklib cxx dbus dri ffmpeg fontconfig fortran gdbm gpm hardened iconv java jpeg kde modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl openmp pam pcre png policykit pppd qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session sqlite ssl sysfs threads truetype unicode x86 xml xorg zlib" 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev virtualbox" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox" 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, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 295913 [details] dmesg log of the OOM
Created attachment 295915 [details] Last lines in the emerge output
Created attachment 295917 [details] Last lines in the emerge output (after the elog echo)
Created attachment 295919 [details] output of emerge --info =www-client/firefox-8.0
Created attachment 295921 [details] Build log
Created attachment 295923 [details] Environment
Please attach free -m output. I think 512mb for firefox is small.
luca@gentoo-vm ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 883 732 151 0 46 460 -/+ buffers/cache: 225 657 Swap: 512 121 390 This is during compilation, I'm trying -fno-var-tracking and -fno-var-tracking-assignment as reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/714921
-fno-var-tracking had no effect. System slowing down to a crawl: luca@gentoo-vm ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 883 874 8 0 8 57 -/+ buffers/cache: 809 73 Swap: 512 317 194 Crawling even more: luca@gentoo-vm ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 883 875 7 0 7 35 -/+ buffers/cache: 832 50 Swap: 512 478 33 Almost OOM-ing: luca@gentoo-vm ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 883 875 7 0 7 18 -/+ buffers/cache: 849 33 Swap: 512 512 0 OOM and memory freed (emerge gurgling errors): luca@gentoo-vm ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 883 167 715 0 8 38 -/+ buffers/cache: 121 761 Swap: 512 158 353 OOM and memory freed (console back to me): luca@gentoo-vm ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 883 159 723 0 8 43 -/+ buffers/cache: 107 775 Swap: 512 121 391
You ran out of memory. Things to do about it: 1) Install more RAM. 2) Remove "-pipe" from CFLAGS. 3) Do NOT file bug reports about it.
(In reply to comment #10) > You ran out of memory. Things to do about it: > > 1) Install more RAM. > 2) Remove "-pipe" from CFLAGS. > 3) Do NOT file bug reports about it. I beg to differ. Whereas it is true that I ran out of memory, I tried a different approach: 1. emerge "<sys-devel/gcc-4.5" 2. gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5 3. source /etc/profile 4. emerge firefox and it worked fine. The step where gcc-4.5 died due to an OOM condition never exausted the total of RAM+SWAP with gcc-4.4.5, and firefox was completed successfully, as you can see in the new attachment.
Created attachment 296019 [details] output of emerge --info =www-client/firefox-8.0 w/ gcc-4.4.5
