Bug 281080 – media-sound/beast removal request

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-08-11 09:38:05 UTC]

Doesn't build with asneeded. Doesn't pass configure with Autoconf 2.64. And if you manage to get it compiled, it segfaults:

ssuominen@unique ~ $ beast
*** buffer overflow detected ***: beast terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f90f33e6167]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7f90f33e40a0]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7f90f33e2ee7]
beast[0x400ec8]
beast[0x400c57]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7f90f331fa3d]
beast[0x4009b9]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00402000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 9724392                            /usr/bin/beast
00601000-00602000 r--p 00001000 08:01 9724392                            /usr/bin/beast
00602000-00603000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 9724392                            /usr/bin/beast
01508000-01529000 rw-p 01508000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
7f90f30ea000-7f90f3100000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2187460                    /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7f90f3100000-7f90f32ff000 ---p 00016000 08:01 2187460                    /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7f90f32ff000-7f90f3300000 r--p 00015000 08:01 2187460                    /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7f90f3300000-7f90f3301000 rw-p 00016000 08:01 2187460                    /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7f90f3301000-7f90f344f000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 9438849                    /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
7f90f344f000-7f90f364f000 ---p 0014e000 08:01 9438849                    /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
7f90f364f000-7f90f3653000 r--p 0014e000 08:01 9438849                    /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
7f90f3653000-7f90f3654000 rw-p 00152000 08:01 9438849                    /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
7f90f3654000-7f90f3659000 rw-p 7f90f3654000 00:00 0 
7f90f3659000-7f90f3676000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 9438850                    /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
7f90f3844000-7f90f3846000 rw-p 7f90f3844000 00:00 0 
7f90f3873000-7f90f3875000 rw-p 7f90f3873000 00:00 0 
7f90f3875000-7f90f3876000 r--p 0001c000 08:01 9438850                    /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
7f90f3876000-7f90f3877000 rw-p 0001d000 08:01 9438850                    /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
7ffffb862000-7ffffb877000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0                      [stack]
7ffffb9ff000-7ffffba00000 r-xp 7ffffb9ff000 00:00 0                      [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
Aborted

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-08-11 10:12:04 UTC]

erm, failure to build with a masked autoconf and a force as-needed is hardly a grant to remove a package from my pov. beast upstream is still active even if no release was seen in the past months, they do fix bugs in their repository and track their bugs at bugzilla.

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-08-11 10:29:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> erm, failure to build with a masked autoconf and a force as-needed is hardly a
> grant to remove a package from my pov. beast upstream is still active even if
> no release was seen in the past months, they do fix bugs in their repository
> and track their bugs at bugzilla.
> 

those are just extras, the real reason being in Comment #0.

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-08-11 10:35:16 UTC]

Clarifying.

It doesn't work with GLIBC 2.10+, GCC 4.4+ and ~arch version of Guile.

I last remember this was working with GCC 4.3.3 and a older Guile.

Portage 2.2_rc36 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.29.1foobar x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29.1foobar-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8200_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Unknown
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p28
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/home/ssuominen/gentoo-x86"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia cleartype cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd encode exif faac faad fam ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm glitz gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kpathsea lame latex libcaca libnotify libsamplerate mad mikmod mmap mmx mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp pam pango pcre perl png pppd python qt3support qt4 raw readline reflection sdl session sid sndfile spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads trayicon truetype unicode vdpau vorbis webkit x264 xcb xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="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 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 4 Eric Lelong 2009-08-14 03:28:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Clarifying.
> 
> It doesn't work with GLIBC 2.10+, GCC 4.4+ and ~arch version of Guile.
> 
> I last remember this was working with GCC 4.3.3 and a older Guile.
> 
> Portage 2.2_rc36 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0,
> 2.6.29.1foobar x86_64)
> =================================================================
> System uname:
> Linux-2.6.29.1foobar-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8200_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
> Timestamp of tree: Unknown
> ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
> app-shells/bash:     4.0_p28
> dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1
> dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1
> dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
> dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r2
> sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
> sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
> sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
> sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
> sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
> CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2 -pipe"
> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
> /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild
> /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d
> /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c
> /etc/udev/rules.d"
> CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2 -pipe"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages
> multilib-strict parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms
> strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu"
> LINGUAS="en"
> MAKEOPTS="-j5"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
> --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
> --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/home/ssuominen/gentoo-x86"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="X a52 aac aalib acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia cleartype cli
> cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd encode exif faac faad fam ffmpeg flac
> fortran gdbm glitz gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kpathsea lame latex
> libcaca libnotify libsamplerate mad mikmod mmap mmx mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap
> multilib musepack musicbrainz ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal
> opengl openmp pam pango pcre perl png pppd python qt3support qt4 raw readline
> reflection sdl session sid sndfile spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification
> svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads trayicon truetype unicode vdpau vorbis
> webkit x264 xcb xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
> atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801
> hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem
> ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug
> file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null
> plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="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
> 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux"
> LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
> text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
> Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL,
> PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
> 

It should not be removed when it still works on 32 bit systems with the current version of gcc (4.3.2).  I just re-emerged on my system and it works just fine.  Compiles and runs - no problem.
 emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_Dual_CPU_E2140_@_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r3
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mssse3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mssse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl alsa artswrappersuid audacious audiofile berkdb bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dri dssi dvd exif expat ffmpeg fftw flac gdbm gif gimp glade gle glitz gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal iconv id3tag imagemagick imlib2 isdnlog jack jpeg jpeg2k ladspa lame lash libsamplerate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap musepack ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp pam pango pcre perl png portaudio pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session sndfile soundtouch spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl subversion svg sysfs tcpd threads timidity truetype twolame unicode usb vamp vim-syntax vorbis wavpack x86 xml xorg xscreensaver zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel emu10k1 usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="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 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" CAMERAS="directory samsung" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-08-14 11:47:24 UTC]

Here's upstream answer on the probability of seeing a new release with gcc4.4 and glibc2.10 fixes soonish.

2009/08/11
12:36 < EvaSDK> hello there
12:37 < EvaSDK> Is a release of beast planned soonish ?
2009/08/13
17:02 < stw> EvaSDK: well, the 0.7.2 release has been delayed for many reasons; still i hope that it will happen
17:03 < stw> EvaSDK: but i cannot say when - could be a few weeks away, or a few months

So I guess I, or someone charitable, should work on a snapshot to see if any of the reasons motivating this removal still hold true.

[Comment 6 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2009-08-15 18:36:44 UTC]

Okay, there is no seriously no reason for this to be masked.  We have an active upstream and people use this package.  Just because it doesn't work for you is no reason to remove it from the tree.

A package does NOT have to build with the latest and greatest unstable toolchain for it to be in the tree.  There are people on stable that have no problem running it.  If it doesn't work in ~arch then that's something to fix, not throw it away.

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-08-15 19:49:05 UTC]

It's useless at the moment for ~arch users and we don't have a feature called "Mask it only for ~arch users.". The package.mask is there to tell there's something wrong with the package and I've assigned this to treecleaners to get more attention for it.

If you take a look at the metadata.xml you'll realize I'm one of the maintainers, as member of sound team, and I'm saying we won't be fixing this.

[Comment 8 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2009-08-15 23:28:14 UTC]

then why is it going through treecleaner at all?  maintainers can remove their packages themselves, for whatever reason they want, at any time they want.  treecleaner is supposed to handle maintainer-needed packages only.  we don't remove packages with users and active upstreams.  we're supposed to vote on this stuff.  none of this is true here.  if you want to remove things, then more power to you, but it shouldn't be done as a treecleaner bug.

[Comment 9 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-08-16 11:52:30 UTC]

I don't understand the noise here, we have 3 developers commenting which each has CVS access. Why not spend your time adding the new snapshot (or version) in tree instead? It would be much more productive.

[Comment 10 Mart Raudsepp 2009-08-17 02:55:44 UTC]

Maybe we don't like our arms twisted to do it immediately now because you have p.masked it, when it works just fine on _stable tree_ systems, and a release is coming from upstream soon enough for these bleeding edge @system compatibility things to be fixed in a normal course...

[Comment 11 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-10-13 11:18:06 UTC]

No problem.

Removed from tree as planned.