Bug 439122 - ds9 fails to load on 64-bit platforms
Summary: ds9 fails to load on 64-bit platforms
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tcl
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-27 03:49 UTC by Jim Bosch
Modified: 2008-04-10 15:15 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-10 15:15:10 UTC
Type: ---
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error message (614 bytes, text/plain)
2008-03-27 03:49 UTC, Jim Bosch
no flags Details
output of "rpm -qa ..." prior to the tinkering described in my comment (38.32 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-03-28 00:57 UTC, Jim Bosch
no flags Details

Description Jim Bosch 2008-03-27 03:49:31 UTC
Description of problem:
ds9 fails to load in 64-bit platforms, at "package require BLT" in
"/usr/share/ds9/src/ds9.tcl" (full output attached).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.1-1.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ds9 on 64-bit Fedora 8
2. Try to run ds9.
  
Actual results:
script fails; see above

Expected results:
ds9 loads properly

Additional info:
This can be fixed by adding setting TCLLIBPATH=/usr/lib64 before running ds9,
which suggests it's a problem with tcl not having 64-bit packages available in
its package path by default, but I don't know about tcl to know the proper way
to fix this.

Comment 1 Jim Bosch 2008-03-27 03:49:31 UTC
Created attachment 299262 [details]
error message

Comment 2 Sergio Pascual 2008-03-27 08:47:19 UTC
I can't reproduce the problem. In my x86_64 machine I have made:

# yum remove blt (it removes ds9 also)
and then
# yum install ds9 (it installs blt also)

And then ds9 works properly. So please, could you give the ouput of this command:
rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}.%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n'



Comment 3 Jim Bosch 2008-03-28 00:57:20 UTC
Created attachment 299419 [details]
output of "rpm -qa ..." prior to the tinkering described in my comment

Comment 4 Jim Bosch 2008-03-28 00:58:45 UTC
I tried your remove/install pair, and noticed that prior to remove, I had both
x86_64 and i386 versions of blt; after reinstall, I had only x86_64, and the the
error switched to libtclxpa.so.

I then removed xpa-tcl (both arches) and reinstalled ds9; error message switched
to libtkimg1.3.so.  One more pass (removing tkimg, reinstalling ds9) fixed the
problem completely.

I then reinstalled the 32-versions of these packages, and the problem reappeared.

In short, with only x86_64 libraries, ds9 works fine.  With any of the 32-bit
libraries installed, it does not.

In case you're still curious, I have attached the output of rpm -qa prior to
doing the above.

Comment 5 Marek Mahut 2008-03-28 06:18:20 UTC
Maybe this is a multilib problem?

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MultilibTricks

Comment 6 Sergio Pascual 2008-03-28 09:49:22 UTC
Ok, now I can reproduce the bug. I have installed ds9.x86_64 and the i386
version of blt. When the i386 version of blt is installed, the i386 is loaded
instead of the x86_64.

This problem is not related with ds9, but with the way tcl 8.4 loads packages.
If you have only tcl.x86_64 and blt.x86_64, this works:
$ tclsh
% package require BLT
2.4

But if you install also blt.i386 you get
$ tclsh
% package require BLT
couldn't load file "/usr/lib/blt2.4/libBLTlite24.so":
/usr/lib/blt2.4/libBLTlite24.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

So let me search if there's a tcl bug like this already reported. As a temporary
workaround install only the x86_64 versions of the dependencies of ds9.



Comment 7 Sergio Pascual 2008-03-28 16:08:58 UTC
I'm CCing Michael Thomas, the maintainer of blt. 

Michael, do you think this is a bug of tcl or a bug of blt (and tkimg and xpa-tcl)?

Comment 8 Wart 2008-03-28 18:31:56 UTC
This is a bug in Tcl that has been fixed in Fedora 9.  The problem is that
tcl.x86_64 includes both /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib64/ in the list of directories
that it uses to find packages ($auto_path).  If blt.i386 is installed, then it
is found first and used, even though blt.x86_64 is also installed.

What I don't understand is why 'yum install blt' will install both the i386 and
x86_64 packages.

Comment 9 Sergio Pascual 2008-03-29 15:27:04 UTC
I'm going to reassign this bug to tcl

Comment 10 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-04-10 15:15:10 UTC
I didn't find any ds9 in older repositories (F-8,...). That's strange. In the
F-9 repository is only ds9.x86_64 release, so I'd like to close it as nextrelease.


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