Bug 57968 – ebuild of egenix-mx-base-2.0.5 failed after python terminated with signal 6

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Benjamin Collins 2004-07-22 09:07:17 UTC]

Here's a snip of the emerge output:

copying build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/mx/Misc/Cache.py -> /var/tmp/portage/egenix-mx-base-2.0.5/image/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/Misc
writing byte-compilation script '/var/tmp/portage/egenix-mx-base-2.0.5/temp/tmp3eCZHO.py'
/usr/bin/python -O /var/tmp/portage/egenix-mx-base-2.0.5/temp/tmp3eCZHO.py
usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/TextTools/Examples/pytag.py:47: SyntaxWarning: name 'debugging' is used prior to global declaration
python: stack smashing attack in function symtable_node()
error: command '/usr/bin/python' terminated by signal 6

!!! ERROR: dev-python/egenix-mx-base-2.0.5 failed.
!!! Function distutils_src_install, Line 43, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set USE="python"
2. run emerge postgresql -u
3.



Expected Results:  
a successful build

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r0,
2.6.7-gentoo-r7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-funroll-loops"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-funroll-loops"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb cdr cjk crypt cups doc emacs encode esd
ethereal f77 fbcon foomaticdb gcj gd gdbm gif gmp gnome gpm gtk gtk+ gtk2 icc
imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde leim libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif
mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt
quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype
unicode usb vhosts wmf x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"


[07.22.04 11:06:14 bc@obi-wan bc]$ qpkg  python -i -I -vv
dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 *
   /var/db/pkg/dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1/python-fchksum-1.7.1.ebuild
        Python module to find the checksum of files [
http://www.dakotacom.net/~donut/programs/fchksum.html ]
Compiled with USE Flags: 
dev-python/python-docs-2.3.4 *
   /var/db/pkg/dev-python/python-docs-2.3.4/python-docs-2.3.4.ebuild
        HTML documentation for Python [ http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/ ]
Compiled with USE Flags: 
dev-python/pygtk-2.2.0 *
   /var/db/pkg/dev-python/pygtk-2.2.0/pygtk-2.2.0.ebuild
        GTK+2 bindings for Python [ http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/ ]
Compiled with USE Flags: gnome opengl 
dev-python/pyxml-0.8.3-r1 *
   /var/db/pkg/dev-python/pyxml-0.8.3-r1/pyxml-0.8.3-r1.ebuild
        A collection of libraries to process XML with Python. [
http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/ ]
Compiled with USE Flags: 
dev-python/PyOpenGL-2.0.0.44 *
   /var/db/pkg/dev-python/pyopengl-2.0.0.44/PyOpenGL-2.0.0.44.ebuild
        Python OpenGL bindings [ http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ ]
Compiled with USE Flags: 
dev-lang/python-2.3.4 *
   /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/python-2.3.4/python-2.3.4.ebuild
        A really great language [ http://www.python.org ]
Compiled with USE Flags: ncurses gdbm ssl readline -tcltk berkdb -bootstrap ipv6
-build -ucs2 doc X

[Comment 1 Lukasz Strzygowski (RETIRED) 2004-07-23 08:34:18 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55436 ***