Bug 847442 – Cannot boot x86 gentoo: Value too large for defined data type

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description LABBE Corentin 2022-05-25 14:10:56 UTC]

Booting a fresh i486 image lead to lot of binary failling with:
Cannot boot x86 gentoo: Value too large for defined data type

The hdd was prepared with:
wget i486 stage3
extract
mount proc dev sys
linux32 chroot /mnt/gentoo
emerge grub
grub-install && grub-mkconfig
The kernel is compiled elsewhere but it is an x86 bzImage.

Booting the same hdd with qemu lead to a successfully boot.
qemu-system-i386 -hda /dev/sdc -nographic -m 256 -kernel vmlinuz -append 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda1' -cpu pentium3
So only real hardware seems to trigger this.

I have tried to rebuild openrc and coreutils with -DLARGEFILE_SOURCE _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 without success.

See http://kernel.montjoie.ovh/P1110279.JPG

Reproducible: Always




Portage 3.0.30 (python 3.9.12-final-0, default/linux/x86/17.0, gcc-11.2.1, glibc-2.34-r13, 5.17.5-dirty i686)
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System uname: Linux-5.17.5-dirty-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E4500_@_2.20GHz-with-glibc2.34
KiB Mem:     2022192 total,    615376 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 20 May 2022 05:00:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: dad82284b99709594e39d8f912df2755be0225cb
sh bash 5.1_p16
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p2) 2.37
app-misc/pax-utils:        1.3.3::gentoo
app-shells/bash:           5.1_p16::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:             5.34.0-r9::gentoo
dev-lang/python:           3.9.12::gentoo, 3.10.4::gentoo
dev-util/meson:            0.61.4-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:       2.7-r3::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:           0.44.10::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:          2.29::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:        2.71-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:        1.16.5::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:        2.37_p1-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.4.1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:             11.2.1_p20220115::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:      2.5-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:         2.4.6-r6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:            4.3::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers:  5.15-r3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:            2.34-r13::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs binpkg-multi-instance buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="C.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="acl bzip2 cli crypt dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 libglvnd libtirpc ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre readline seccomp split-usr ssl unicode x86 xattr zlib" ABI_X86="32" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2020" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-4 php8-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres12 postgres13" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_9" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26 ruby27" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq proto steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LEX, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2022-05-27 15:54:15 UTC]

This bug is difficult to assign because the cause is unclear and it is going to be difficult for anybody to reproduce.

Please update the bug if you are able to diagnose it any further.

[Comment 2 LABBE Corentin 2022-06-08 13:08:49 UTC]

I worked a bit on this bug, with the same kernel, it boots perfectly on a 486 but not on my p3.
This is really weird, but I found the solution.
The date in the bios was too early, setting it to 2022 lead to a normal boot.