The openblas package is unable to run through annocheck. Using a recent build, such as https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1890262 (openblas-0.3.19-3.fc36) I cannot get it to complete annocheck unless I exclude the static libraries. I am invoking this via rpminspect, which is using the defaults for annocheck. If I tell rpminspect to ignore /usr/lib/*.a and /usr/lib64/*.a for openblas, it completes fine. It is consistent across architectures. I at least checked aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64 and it behaves the same way. I am on Fedora 35 and have annobin-annocheck-10.35 installed.
Hi David, Which openblas rpm(s) trigger this problem ? I tried testing openblas-0.3.19-3.fc36.x86_64.rpm and had no problems. I also tried testing openblas-static-0.3.19-3.fc36.x86_64.rpm. This took a significant amount of time to complete an annocheck run (55 seconds according to the wall clock). But then there are a *lot* of components in the libraries and it looks like all of them have problems. I was using annobin 10.52 so there is also a possibility that this is an already fixed problem. (Although I do not remember fixing an infinite loop issue). Cheers Nick
Is this an actual infinite loop, or is it perhaps due to a large network transfer? Could this be debuginfod?
Given that we have no response from the reporter, and no other reports of annocheck going into an infinite loop, I am closing this BZ. I suspect that Florian's guess that the issue might be debuginfod related is spot on. It should be noted that annocheck has a command line option to run without using debuginfod (-n or --no-use-debuginfod), which might help if similar problems are encountered in the future.