Bug 489084 – =sys-apps/memtest86-4.3.3-r1 : Application crashes when setting CPUs to run in parallel

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jason Mours 2013-10-22 22:10:35 UTC]

Setting up sys/apps/memtest86-4.3.3 & -r1. Setting the application to run the CPUs in parallel causes my machine to lock and reboot.

Let me know if you need anything else, I will confirm on another gentoo installation.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jason Mours 2013-10-22 22:28:59 UTC]

These are in the build.log :

smp.c: In function 'smp_find_cpus':
smp.c:644:7: warning: passing argument 1 of 'scan_for_floating_ptr_struct' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
smp.c:375:1: note: expected 'unsigned int *' but argument is of type 'int'
smp.c:647:10: warning: passing argument 1 of 'scan_for_floating_ptr_struct' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
smp.c:375:1: note: expected 'unsigned int *' but argument is of type 'int'
smp.c:654:10: warning: passing argument 1 of 'scan_for_floating_ptr_struct' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
smp.c:375:1: note: expected 'unsigned int *' but argument is of type 'unsigned int'
smp.c:666:9: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
smp.c:751:6: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]

: Posting info

[Comment 2 Jason Mours 2013-10-22 22:29:23 UTC]

Created attachment 361670 [details]
build.log

[Comment 3 Jason Mours 2013-10-22 22:29:41 UTC]

Created attachment 361672 [details]
emerge-info

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2017-03-20 07:07:54 UTC]

give 4.3.7 a try

[Comment 5 Jason Mours 2017-03-22 21:03:00 UTC]

the system that the bug was filed on turned to mud. It has since been rebuilt with a 4.x kernel and a stage3 from late last fall. The new system is pure EFI with no boot loader. Kernel on boot. elilo didn't work. I read  EFI requires memtest86 v5.

If this still gets looked at, there was a QA bug in the sys-apps/memtest86-4.3.7 ebuild leading to collisions with :


!!! failed to properly create symlink:
!!! /boot/memtest86/memtest.bin -> memtest
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b'memtest' -> b'/boot/memtest86/memtest.bin'
!!! Failed to move file.
!!! /boot/memtest86/memtest.bin -> memtest

&
Detected file collision(s)
  /boot/memtest86/memtest


'/boot/memtest86/memtest.bin' does not exist, only '/boot/memtest86/memtest'

Posting build.log

[Comment 6 Jason Mours 2017-03-22 21:04:05 UTC]

Created attachment 467986 [details]
memtest86-4.3.7-build.log

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2017-03-23 01:35:38 UTC]

(In reply to Jason Mours from comment #5)

symlink behavior is tracked in another bug and has been fixed in the latest rev