Bug 103836 – app-portage/eix-0.3.0_beta crashes with "Illegal instruction" on SPARC

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

[Description Karl-Johan Karlsson 2005-08-26 08:47:36 UTC]

app-portage/eix-0.3.0_beta builds the package database just fine, but when 
trying to search I get to wait for a long time (~20s on an Ultra10), until it 
crashes with the message "Illegal instruction". This happens on both a hardened 
Ultra10 and a non-hardened Blade100, both running gentoo-sources 2.6.12-r9. 
emerge --info for the Ultra10 (the Blade100 currently doesn't boot for unrelated 
reasons) at the end. eix 0.2.6 works.

"strace eix -s gentoo-sources" shows:
[...]
read(3, "esklets\0Nhttp://gdesklets.gnomed"..., 16384) = 16384
read(3, "Maker DockApp: Lists all your ru"..., 8192) = 8192
read(3, "r with native ALSA and OSS suppo"..., 24576) = 24576
read(3, ".icewm.org/ http://themes.freshm"..., 8192) = 8192
read(3, " keyboard-based window manager\0\'"..., 8192) = 8192
read(3, "2.4_pre1\2\0\0050.2.4\2\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0050.2.4\2"..., 8192) = 6346
read(3, "", 8192)                       = 0
read(3, "", 8192)                       = 0
read(3, "", 8192)                       = 0
read(3, "", 8192)                       = 0
read(3, "", 8192)                       = 0
read(3, "", 8192)                       = 0
[...]
_llseek(3, 237568, [237568], SEEK_SET)  = 0
read(3, "\3\0\0040.97\1\0\0040.97\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0031.0\1\0\003"..., 8192) = 
8192
read(3, "f-syntax\0(vim plugin: BNF file s"..., 8192) = 8192
read(3, "d=152\0\rpublic-domain\0\1\0\0032.2\1\0\0032."..., 8192) = 8192
_llseek(3, 237568, [237568], SEEK_SET)  = 0
read(3, "\3\0\0040.97\1\0\0040.97\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0031.0\1\0\003"..., 8192) = 
8192
read(3, "f-syntax\0(vim plugin: BNF file s"..., 8192) = 8192
read(3, "d=152\0\rpublic-domain\0\1\0\0032.2\1\0\0032."..., 8192) = 8192
[...]
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGILL +++

emerge --info for the Ultra10:

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.
3.20040420-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 sparc64 sun4u
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/
config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv 
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.se http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.
ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups dlloader eds 
emacs encode esd fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gstreamer gtk2 hardened 
imlib jpeg kerberos libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis 
opengl pam pdflib perl png python readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-
fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux 
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Emil Beinroth 2005-08-26 18:00:19 UTC]

Does eix '' work?

[Comment 2 Karl-Johan Karlsson 2005-08-27 01:46:03 UTC]

Yes, it works.

[Comment 3 Emil Beinroth 2005-08-27 15:05:00 UTC]

I ran into the same problem while testing eix on my shiny new mips-machine.
The bug should be fixed in the new 0.3.0 release of eix:
http://eix.sourceforge.net/ebuilds/eix-0.3.0.ebuild
Can you confirm this?

[Comment 4 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2005-08-27 15:33:48 UTC]

0.3.0 in cvs, please test 

[Comment 5 Matti Bickel (RETIRED) 2005-08-28 11:29:07 UTC]

I had the same prob on ppc, 0.3.0 fixed it. Thanks

[Comment 6 Albert Holm 2005-08-28 14:08:04 UTC]

0.3.0 seems to work on a blade 100 sparc.

[Comment 7 Albert Holm 2005-09-19 01:51:38 UTC]

An upgrade to eix-0.3.0-r1 seems to have solved it for the Ultra10 in question 
too.