Bug 1014846

Summary: numerous memory-corruption bugs shown by valgrind/glibc
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component: festivalAssignee: Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: bruno, mattdm, taybola
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2013-10-02 22:18:22 UTC
festival-1.96-25.fc19.x86_64, running

% echo hello | env MALLOC_CHECK_=1 festival --tts

shows:

*** Error in `festival': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000a34ff0 ***
*** Error in `festival': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000a35430 ***
*** Error in `festival': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000a35870 ***
*** Error in `festival': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000a35cb0 ***
*** Error in `festival': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000a360f0 ***
*** Error in `festival': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000a36530 ***

% echo hello | valgrind festival --tts

shows:

[far too many errors to transcribe here]
Some of them may be false positives due to use of the libestools.so
garbage collector (if I interpret valgrind backtraces properly).  There
appear many definite errors too.

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2015-01-09 20:05:27 UTC
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Comment 2 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:07:13 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 10:27:42 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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Comment 4 Frank Ch. Eigler 2016-07-19 12:42:29 UTC
still present

Comment 5 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:07:47 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 6 Matthew Miller 2016-10-19 21:22:41 UTC
The Festival package in Fedora needs a lot of work to update to a newer release, fix a lot of bugs, and generally clean up the packaging. And, despite best intentions, we just haven't had the developer interest in doing so. 

The current plan is to retire Festival from Fedora. See thread at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UOL4ETKKOFGTFZZ36V726OF7UTHYMEYP/ for discussion.

Despite being large, slow, and fragile, Festival is interesting software and as far as I know can produce the best quality results of any open-source TTS system. It would be nice if there is interest in continuing it, but that should probably be done from a clean slate in any case.

In the meantime, I think it's most honest to close the currently-open bugs as "WONTFIX". Thanks everyone for your reports and effort in making Fedora better.