On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:23:31PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014/09/21 11:31, trondd wrote: > > Several of us are seeing failures building dbus with xmlto crashing on > > random files. It will also crash if you run xmlto manually on a file. > > It's not consistently crashing on the same file all of the time. It looks > > like it's printing out garbage memory. > > > > We are building on an early September snapshot on the Zaurus. > > > > Here is an example failure while building dbus: > > > > Making all in doc > > gmake[2]: Entering directory '/usr/ports/pobj/dbus-1.8.6/dbus-1.8.6/doc' > > /usr/local/bin/xmlto man dbus-cleanup-sockets.1.xml > > Writing dbus-cleanup-sockets.1 for refentry(dbuscleanupsockets1) > > rm: ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß > > ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß > > ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß: File too long > > These are 0xdf characters almost always from malloc(3) "junking" when > freeing memory. > > Are you only seeing this on arm? I haven't seen this on other arch > (and haven't used arm for a couple of releases).
I got a xmlto crash in dbus on sparc. Didn't have time to investigate yet. > > I wonder if it's anything to do with stack-protector. We aren't doing > regular package builds on arm any more so no good way to pick up problems > (except for things that also affect the base OS). > > > /usr/local/bin/xmlto man dbus-daemon.1.xml > > Writing dbus-daemon.1 for refentry(dbusdaemon1) > > /usr/local/bin/xmlto: line 622: 11775 Bus Error (core dumped ) > > $(BASH) "$FORMAT" post-process > > Makefile: 765: recipe for target 'dbus-daemon.1' failed > > Have a look at the core file that's left around (presumably bash.core?) > and see if there's anything useful in a backtrace. > >
