Bug 45225 – prelink core dumps if you use the -f flag

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gareth Bult 2004-03-20 11:25:04 UTC]

I've had one other person verify this.

If I try prelink -amvR , it works.
If I try prelink -amvRf , it fails.

prelink -au works, so I'm presently doing;

prelink -au && prelink -amR

(!)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. prelink -amRf
2.
3.

[Comment 1 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 02:14:56 UTC]

Is this an AMD64 only bug?

I have tested sys-devel/prelink-20040216 with prelink -amvRf and it works fine here on a x86.

Could you run gdb on the core file:

ulimit -c unlimited
prelink -amvRf
gdb prelink core
gdb>backtrace

Many thanks.

[Comment 2 Gareth Bult 2004-04-05 04:10:58 UTC]

Yes, AMD64 only.

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Core was generated by `prelink -amvRf'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
#0  0x0000000000437dc9 in ?? ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x0000000000437dc9 in ?? ()
#1  0x0000000000459ce1 in ?? ()
#2  0x000000000043807b in ?? ()
#3  0x000000000040ba6e in ?? ()
#4  0x000000000040c26f in ?? ()
#5  0x0000000000431d39 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000000004001ea in ?? ()
(gdb)

[Comment 3 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 04:34:31 UTC]

Thanks,

the gdb backtrace was not too useful :-(

Could you attach the last 10 or so lines from the prelink output to the bug, it might say why it aborted.

[Comment 4 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 04:49:16 UTC]

I have found a new version of prelink in fedora development.

* Wed Mar 17 2004 Jakub Jelinek <[e-mail]> 0.3.1-2
- unlink temporary files if renaming to the destination or setting of
  security context failed (#118251)
- fix bi-architecture prelinking (#118226)
- if prelink called from the cron script fails, note the exit status
  into /var/log/prelink.log
 
is in the changelog ... so it may fix it.

Added prelink-20040317 to portage, please test when it apprears on rsync.

[Comment 5 Gareth Bult 2004-04-05 05:41:12 UTC]

/usr/lib/fltk-1.1/libfltk.so.1.1                             0000003701600000-0000003701795d00
/usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.0.so.4                                 0000003709100000-00000037092b9f20
/usr/X11R6/lib/libMrm.so.2                                   0000003700600000-0000003700722f80
/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0                           0000003704f00000-0000003705007b48
/usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdeinit_kaccess.so                       0000003701e00000-0000003701f09c78
/usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdeinit_kio_http_cache_cleaner.so        0000003701e00000-0000003701f06a48
/usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdeinit_dcopserver.so                    0000003701e00000-0000003701f1a840
Laying out 422 libraries in virtual address space 41000000-50000000
Random base 0x48c0b000
Aborted (core dumped)

[Comment 6 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) 2004-04-07 02:06:06 UTC]

Please could you test the latest version of prelink and report.
"sys-devel/prelink-20040317"

many thanks for your time.