Bug 1319551

Summary: Possible regression in binutils-2.26-16.fc25
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: binutilsAssignee: Nick Clifton <nickc>
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Description Orion Poplawski 2016-03-21 02:33:51 UTC
Description of problem:

See https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/package/hdf5

Since binutils (and pkgconfig/kernel-headers) update I'm seeing an openmpi hdf5 test hang:

make[4]: Entering directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/hdf5-1.8.16/openmpi/testpar'
============================
Testing  t_pflush1 
EXCEPTION: Timeout(172800) expired for command:
 # bash --login -c /usr/bin/rpmbuild -bb --target i686 --nodeps  /builddir/build/SPECS/hdf5.spec 

although not all the time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.26-16.fc25

I'm kind of grasping at straws here.  I'll try to reproduce elsewhere, but filing this for now.

Comment 1 Nick Clifton 2016-03-22 12:14:57 UTC
Hi Orion,

> Since binutils (and pkgconfig/kernel-headers) update I'm seeing an openmpi
> hdf5 test hang:

> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> binutils-2.26-16.fc25

Does this mean that it used to work with an older version of the 2.26 based rawhide binutils (eg: binutils-2.26.12) or that it used to work with an older version of the base binutils (eg: binutils-2.25.1-9) ?  (I am hoping the former as that will make it easier to bisect the change the binutils that might have caused the problem...)

Cheers
  Nick

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2016-03-23 22:54:57 UTC
I believe it was working with 2.26-14.fc25.  There may be some weird openmpi interactions here too at the tests are running as check where the program doesn't call MPI_Finalize, or something similar.  I can get t_pflush1 to complete if I change it up to call MPI_Finalize(), but apparently that defeats the purpose of the test.

Comment 3 Nick Clifton 2016-03-24 09:22:25 UTC
Well the good news is that there are only two changes in the binutils between 2.26-14.fc25 and 2.26-16.fc25 (duh).  The first makes a common symbol in an executable override the definition of a non-common version of the same symbol defined in a shared library.  The second fixes a bug in the generation of relocations generated for the x86 architectures (only, not any other architecture) when sources are compiled with -fPIE.

Does either of these sceanarios ring a bell ?  Not knowing anything about hdf5 package or the openmpi tests my guess would be that the problem is related to the former - ie a common symbol in an executable overriding one defined in a shared library.  if so perhaps you could try rebuilding with -fno-common and see if that acts as a workaround.

Comment 4 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:50:22 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

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