Bug 249343

Summary: w3m crashes immediately
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Component: w3mAssignee: Parag Nemade <pnemade>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: high    
Version: rawhideCC: denis, eng-i18n-bugs, jose.p.oliveira.oss, rdieter, trond.danielsen
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: w3m-0.5.2-2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-07-24 12:17:28 UTC Type: ---
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Description Tomas Mraz 2007-07-23 20:18:14 UTC
w3m crashes on x86_64 immediately with segfault. I don't know whether it crashes
on other architectures as well.

The crash is in gc library so I'm cc-ing gc library maintainer.


0x00002aaaaaaf2ec9 in GC_malloc (bytes=24) at thread_local_alloc.c:176
176         GC_FAST_MALLOC_GRANS(result, granules, tiny_fl, DIRECT_GRANULES,
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00002aaaaaaf2ec9 in GC_malloc (bytes=24) at thread_local_alloc.c:176
#1  0x000000000045ccbe in newGeneralList () at textlist.c:23
#2  0x000000000040fcd3 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff0ced58b8, 
    envp=<value optimized out>) at main.c:408
#3  0x0000003b51a1daa4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#4  0x00000000004045d9 in _start ()

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2007-07-24 04:54:50 UTC
Reproduced with current packages in development.
(Doesn't happen with f7 x86_64 for me.)

Could you try reverting to gc-6.8 to see if that makes a difference?

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2007-07-24 09:24:58 UTC
Yes, reverting gc to 6.8 helps. And rebuilding w3m against gc-7.0 helps too. So
that means ABI break in gc. So all dependencies of gc should be rebuilt. 

[root@rawhide64 ~]#  repoquery --whatrequires 'libgc.so.1()(64bit)'
gc-0:7.0-1.fc8.x86_64
sdcc-0:2.6.0-10.fc7.x86_64
Macaulay2-0:0.9.95-4.fc7.x86_64
asymptote-0:1.32-1.fc8.x86_64
gc-devel-0:7.0-1.fc8.x86_64
inkscape-0:0.45.1-1.fc7.x86_64
w3m-0:0.5.2-1.fc8.x86_64


Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2007-07-24 09:28:48 UTC
Ccing owners of the above packages.


Comment 4 Denis Leroy 2007-07-24 09:34:05 UTC
I would prefer if gc were held back to 6.8, since it's only in updates-testing.
This is a gc bug after all, it's not meant to break ABI. Looking at the gc
mailing list, there seems to be a number of issues with 7.0, i.e. ABI could
break again with further 7.x updates.


Comment 5 Tomas Mraz 2007-07-24 09:36:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> I would prefer if gc were held back to 6.8, since it's only in updates-testing.
> This is a gc bug after all, it's not meant to break ABI. Looking at the gc
> mailing list, there seems to be a number of issues with 7.0, i.e. ABI could
> break again with further 7.x updates.
> 

For Fedora 7 that's clear - there should be no ABI breaking update. But for
Fedora 8 I'd leave that on the gc maintainer. Rex?


Comment 6 Parag Nemade 2007-07-24 09:38:50 UTC
on Tomas Mraz request, I already started w3m build on koji for devel branch.

Comment 7 Denis Leroy 2007-07-24 09:41:41 UTC
See also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248700


Comment 8 Parag Nemade 2007-07-24 09:47:10 UTC
w3m-0.5.2-2 built successfully against gc-7.0

Comment 9 Denis Leroy 2007-07-24 11:19:15 UTC
Reopening for F-7. I submitted a patch to work around this for bug 248700.


Comment 10 Parag Nemade 2007-07-24 11:22:00 UTC
will wait for new release of gc for F7 and then accordingly release new version
of w3m for F7 only.

Comment 11 Tomas Mraz 2007-07-24 12:17:28 UTC
I think that for F7 the gc should be fixed which is the bug 248700.

So no need for reopening this one.

(IMHO gc should be fixed for F8 - rawhide too.)