Bug 90381 – X crashes and the entire system locks up whenever I attempt to compile Dosbox

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Nick Boughton 2005-04-25 08:09:34 UTC]

Every time I try to emerge Dosbox my Xserver and system lock up while it is compiling the core_modules of Dosbox. My entire system locks up and needs to be restarted by holding down the power button until it finally switches off. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge dosbox
2.wait
3.

Actual Results:  
The X server locked up and crashed, my processor load went insane and my whole
system needed an unpleasent reboot

Expected Results:  
It should have compiled dosbox in a safe sandbox environment which AFAIK should
preclude this kind of event from happening at all, dosbox should then have been
installed to my system, I am a little unsure if this is a bug in dosbox code or
a bug in portage or gcc... ?

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/ppc/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1,
2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc 740/750
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr  4 2005, 11:33:08)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.90.0.3-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib alsa apm audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdparanoia
cups curl dga dio directfb dvd emboss encode esd fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fortran
ftp ggi gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg ladcca mad matroska mikmod mime mp3 mpeg
mysql ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre perl png ppc python
readline sdl sndfile sox ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
unicode usb vcd videos vorbis xine xml2 xprint xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2005-04-26 08:30:08 UTC]

Do you have preempt enabled in your kernel?  If so, remove it as it can cause instability like this.  I can't replicate this behaviour here.

[Comment 2 Nick Boughton 2005-04-27 01:24:29 UTC]

No I don't have preempt enabled precisely because it can cause instability.

[Comment 3 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2005-05-11 13:05:58 UTC]

Does it lock up the computer when compiling from the shell (when not in X)?  Do any other ebuilds do this?

[Comment 4 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2005-07-11 19:41:17 UTC]

No response.  Please reopen the bug if it's still a problem.