Bug 809122
Summary: | internal error, aborting at merge.c line 877 in _bfd_merged_section_offset | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jim Meyering <meyering> |
Component: | binutils | Assignee: | Nick Clifton <nickc> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 17 | CC: | amodra, dank, jakub, nickc, rjones |
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Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 05:38:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Jim Meyering
2012-04-02 14:23:21 UTC
Yes, I know that coreutils' "make syntax-check" rule should not be running multiple concurrent jobs that may build the same files in parallel. This might be the impetus finally to fix that buglet. I've seen this running the mainline binutils testsuite on my x86_64 box, and with the system (Ubuntu 11.10) binutils. Like Jim, I saw it only with make -j. I modified merge.c to execute an illegal instruction rather than aborting, to generate a core. The core dump of .debug_str shows what looks very much like a memory bit flip, a string terminating \000 being replaced with \001. This code in _bfd_merged_section_offset p = secinfo->contents + offset - 1; while (p >= secinfo->contents && *p) --p; ++p; steps back over the flipped terminator, you look up the wrong string, eventually resulting in the abort. Possibly a random failure, but this particular abort is reported fairly regularly so I find it hard to discount. Another possibility is http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/0136243/amd-confirms-cpu-bug-found-by-dragonfly-bsds-matt-dillon A few more core files might help nail down the problem. This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 17. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '17'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 17 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. I just ran into something like this. It started happening when I started invoking make -j with two targets instead of one, on a Makefile generated by cmake. Evidently cmake's dependencies are not correct enough, and it ran the linker twice at the same time with the same commandline. This jibes with comment #1. See http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2014-June/057897.html |