[Openmcl-devel] linux 2.6.23

[Gary Byers]

Did this theory (that the problems have more to do with library
versions than with kernel versions) make sense ?

(I'm still running 2.6.22 here.)


On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Gary Byers wrote:

> I saw something that looks very similar when trying to run under a
> FreeBSD 7.0 prerelease a few weeks ago.
>
> In that case, the problem had something to do with library names/version
> numbers changing; the lisp image remembered that it had been using
> (for example, I don't remember the exact details) "libc.so.N"; the
> dynamic linker actually opened "libc.so.N+1", and the function
> %REVIVE-SHARED-LIBRARIES - which tries to re-open things that had
> been opened by OPEN-SHARED-LIBRARY before the image was saved -
> got confused by the presence of the new C library.
>
> In that case, it worked (for some value of "worked") to use the
> bootstrapping image and fasls to create a new full image.  (That
> new image would presumably have the same problems if I'd tried to
> run it under an older FreeBSD.)  If you have an x86-boot64 image
> and a set of fasls leftover from a previous/recent REBUILD-CCL,
> building the image manually might offer a similar not-quite-right
> workaround.
>
> I think that the real fix likely has to do with doing a better
> job of recognizing that libraries whose name differ only in
> version suffix are likely to be "the same".
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Takehiko Abe wrote:
>
>> Something in linux 2.6.23.1 kernel broke my OpenMCL.
>>
>> Anyone has success with linux 2.6.23 + OpenMCL? If so, please let me
>> know.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> $ openmcl --noinit
>> Unhandled exception 11 at 0x30004006e224, context->regs at #x7fff788e77c8
>> ? for help
>> [8128] OpenMCL kernel debugger: b
>> current thread: tcr = 0x2abb32dd56e0, native thread ID = 0x1fc0,
>> interrupts disabled
>>
>>
>> (#x00002ABB33019F10) #x0000300040038E04 : #<Anonymous Function
>> #x0000300040038D2F> + 213
>> (#x00002ABB33019F40) #x00003000400358F4 : #<Function
>> %WALK-SHARED-LIBRARIES #x000030004003582F> + 197
>> (#x00002ABB33019F68) #x0000300040038A24 : #<Function
>> REVIVE-SHARED-LIBRARIES #x000030004003882F> + 501
>> (#x00002ABB33019FA0) #x000030004003992C : #<Function
>> REFRESH-EXTERNAL-ENTRYPOINTS #x000030004003981F> + 269
>> (#x00002ABB33019FB0) #x0000300040BBE87C : #<Function
>> RESTORE-LISP-POINTERS #x0000300040BBE82F> + 77
>> [8128] OpenMCL kernel debugger: k
>> Killed
>>
>>
>>
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