Bug 282455

Summary:	sys-apps/raidutils-0.0.6-r1 silently segfaults with recent kernels
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John R. Graham <john_r_graham>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to fix reported issues. New ebuild applied the above patch. My emerge --info. Patch to current raidutils--0.0.6-r1.ebuild to correct issue.

Description John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2009-08-23 17:04:27 UTC

I think this is as a result of drift of the kernel drivers (which are actively maintained) with respect to the userland raudutils (which haven't been touched since 2006), but, in any case, the "raideng" component of the raidutils is silently segfaulting when starting up.  I traced the issue to the BuildNodeNameList() function, which is responsible for identifying the driver's device names but, before spending more time on it, I identified a Debian patch that addressed multiple issues, including this.

The new Debian-derived patch replaces the raidutils-0.0.6-misc-fixes.patch, which seems to be an earlier version of the Debian patch.

Comment 1 John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2009-08-23 17:08:07 UTC

Created attachment 202055 [details, diff]
Patch to fix reported issues.

Comment 2 John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2009-08-23 17:09:51 UTC

Created attachment 202057 [details]
New ebuild applied the above patch.

Comment 3 John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2009-08-23 17:46:16 UTC

Created attachment 202063 [details]
My emerge --info.

Comment 4 John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2010-05-03 15:05:08 UTC

Created attachment 230147 [details, diff]
Patch to current raidutils--0.0.6-r1.ebuild to correct issue.

Per a recommendation from Polynomial-C, I should be providing patches to ebuilds as opposed to new ebuilds to make it easier for the developers review the changes.  Also, since the bug was filed, some cleanup has been done by Ulrich Mueller to the in-tree ebuild.  The patch takes these changes into account as well.

Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-25 14:51:24 UTC

This looks to be fixed by 0.0.6-r2 (it has latest Fedora changes).

Comment 6 John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2010-07-27 02:31:43 UTC

This appears to work on the hardware.  My RAID management scripts will be exercising it more or less continuously.

Just out of curiosity, why was this pushed to stable?  Why isn't it in testing?

- John

Comment 7 John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2010-07-27 10:43:18 UTC

Reopening for comment on skipped testing phase.

- John

Comment 8 John R. Graham gentoo-dev

2011-01-26 18:56:37 UTC

Well, maybe nobody else uses this but me. It's been stable on my system for a looong time now. Closing as FIXED.