Problems with gcc 3.3.1-r2?

plate · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject:

Quick fix:

Wolfpack98 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 61 Location: USA

Pilla:

Kinda hard to stick to -r1 if emerge -u world pulls down the latest (broken) ebuild

I haven't had a chance to check it again, but if emerge -u world pulls it down again, I'm gonna mask it and go with the previous version (-r1 if it exists)

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:34 am Post subject:

This is very interesting.

I emerged 3.3.1-r2 today on a testbox and have since then emerged several programs (xplanet and vnc are 2 of them) and they all work fine. No segfaults, no nothing.

Is this really related to the new 3.3.1-r2 ebuild?

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cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

To throw a spanner in the works, xmms segfaults for me when compiled with 3.3.1-r2 but if I recompile with 3.4 CVS xmms works perfectly. Perhaps we should find why gcc suddenly changed.

Seoushi · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 1:03 am Post subject:

I think this affected me too. I upgraded alot of stuff including gcc and tryed to get gnome 2.4 up. In the process my first terminal locked up.. I couldnt log out or even reboot, but everything compiled fine after gcc. So now I'm downgrading to gcc 3.2.3-r1 off a live cd.

what all do I need to re-emerge to boot? whenever I boot it checks my disk.. then right after it finished I get a segfault about line 259 in /sbin/rc.

Oh well, think I might stay off accepting keywords for awhile.
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b0fh · Guru Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426

I've also got this problem

At least I can boot again after copying fsck.reiserfs from livecd. Is there any log about what update emerged after buggy gcc?

Bollie · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 24

That'll teach me to be on the bleeding edge!

So, I emerged the borken gcc. Right after that I emerged basically everything. What broke quite seriously is the following:

glibc
coreutils
module-init-tools

I'm downloading a Gentoo LiveCD right now so I can manually copy over the borken glibc. The last time I installed Gentoo, I used the 1.2 CD... *sigh*

If anyone can help me with a binary glibc-2.3.2 (with or without nptl, I don't mind) I would be exceedingly glad.

Ah, well... only 15 hours of D/L-ing to go before the liveCD shows up and I have to finangle some way of writing it...
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Paper · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:22 am Post subject:

here there are binary packages: http://dev.gentoo.org/~avenj/bins/

good luck

Bye,
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Mystilleef · Guru Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 561 Location: Earth

Wow...I need to be very careful with portage now. I still can't get about two packages to compile with GCC-3.3.1, KOffice-1.2.1-r1 been the most useful of them, at least to me.

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Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

Thanks to all of you on this thread for your invaluable help! I am up and running again.

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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

hm.. i am still with gcc 3.3.1-r2. i just compiled some more
packages - the largest of them being qt 3.2.1... no errors
during compile.

i am compiling coreutils and module-init-tools now, and
then i will try glibc. then a reboot and hopefully i will be
back to report back.

plate · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:50 am Post subject:

plate · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:54 am Post subject:

By the way, could someone please confirm whether the quick and dirty fix described at the top of this page works or not?

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

hmm... i am back. reboot went okay.. but now
my nvidia-kernel module can not be loaded.

it gives me an error about /dev/nvidiactrl or
something.

i reckon this is because of the module-init-tools
problem?

hmm.. what does that fix do at the top of this
page? can i use it and then recompile my module-
init-tools so that it works again?

(i tried it but it gives me the following error msg:
mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu
/3.3.1/libgcc_s.a': No such file or directory)

*update* i browsed through the bugzilla section
and am now emerging gcc 3.3.1-r1 again. though
i wonder if it will work since i will compile it with -r2.
perhaps i should recompile it again with -r1 after
i have compiled it with -r2?

Paper · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:05 am Post subject:

Yes, it does work ... if gcc-config is not affected.
Otherwise (as in my case) one need only to manually move libgcc.a (in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.1) out of the way replacing then with libgcc_s.a (in the same dir). After doing that I also reverted to 3.3.1-r1 for safety, as it was working fine for me.

I think that the new libgcc.a was a fix for some statically linked app not working properly, so reverting to gcc-3.3.1-r1 should make reappear this problem. I don't know for sure, just read something about that in bugzilla.

Bye,
Paper

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i do have libgcc.a there, but where would i get
libgcc_s.a to put there? or will re-emerging gcc
3.3.1-r1 what i am doing now take care of this
problem?

Paper · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:17 am Post subject:

You should be fine with gcc-3.3.1-r1.
The fix was only for systems broken because of -r2.

Bye,
Paper

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i am running gcc 3.3.1-r2 now and have compiled
various packages with it. i just emerged module-
init-tools + coreutils with it. after reboot my
nvidia-kernel would not be loaded. now i am using
nv in XF86Config to get into X.

i probably did break module-init-tools and coreutils
with gcc 3.3.1-r2, but now i am hoping i can fix that
by emerging gcc 3.3.1-r1 and then recompiling those
two packages. would that do the trick?

Paper · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:26 am Post subject:

the problem with nvidia-kernel is just a known problem of module-init-tools.
just rename nvidia.o to nvidia.ko and load it

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

so i am emerging gcc-3.3.1-r1 for nothing? boohoo.
what a waste of time. lol. hmm.. i will let it compile
though. and see what happens when i try your
suggestion afterwards.

*update* did ctrl+c on emerging gcc-3.3.1-r1.
trying the nvidia-thing now.

*update 2* that did not work. it still complains
about some /dev/nvidiactrl dir or summat. i will
restart compilation of gcc-3.3.1-r1 now.

*update 3* finished emerging gcc-3.3.1-r1,
recompiled coreutils and module-init-tools and
after a reboot nvidia-kernel and it loaded like
a charm.

unless i noticed something else as broken which
i compiled with -r2, i will leave them as-is.

loginx · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject:

My big problem so far, even after applying the quick fix posted earlier, all my applications are working fine except emerge.
Any emerge operation (sync, -up world, etc...) display the "Performing Global Updates" dialog and only one dot actually displays... it just hangs there for hours.
Any suggestion?

loginx · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:21 pm Post subject:

Actually, it doesn't seem to simply hang but to be working extremely slow.
It's been a couple of hours and all I'm seeing is this:
Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2003
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
.='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move'
.!!! Invalid binary package: fortune-mod-9708-r1.tbz2
..........................@

hrmm....

tsuru · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject: Quick Fix worked for me

The quick fix worked for me as of yet. I've emerged xmms and abiword since and haven't had any segfaults.

thank you

mariourk · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:33 pm Post subject:

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 6:41 pm Post subject:

This is a real interesting issue.

On my testbox I emerge the gcc 3.2.3-r2 version. I then ran several emerges of new and previously installed programs and none of them has given me any problems.

I then decided to emerge glibc again using the neew gcc version and it emerged flawlessly. I then proceeded to emerge xmms and it also emerged without a problem and starts and runs fine. Very strange.