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25.1; Launching Emacs Under ld-linux.so Results in Memory Exhausted on Some Linuxes

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From: Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: mordocai <at> mordocai.net
Subject: 25.1; Launching Emacs Under ld-linux.so Results in Memory Exhausted
 on Some Linuxes
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:31:19 +0200

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Attempting to run Emacs 25.1 with ld-linux.so under certain Linux
distributions will cause an immediate crash with a "Memory exhausted"
message. I can reproduce this consistently under Arch Linux (Kernel
4.8.1-1) and Debian Stretch (Kernel 4.6.0-1). However, Emacs launches
just fine with ld-linux under Linux Mint 17.1 (Kernel 3.13).

The command I'm using to run emacs like this is simply:
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/bin/emacs

When running under GDB, the output is as follows:
> Starting program: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/bin/emacs
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
> [New Thread 0x7fffe7f23700 (LWP 19205)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe6efc700 (LWP 19206)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe64cf700 (LWP 19207)]
>
> ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[19201]: GSlice: failed to allocate 8176
bytes (alignment: 8192): Cannot allocate memory
>
>
> Thread 1 "ld-linux-x86-64" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x00007ffff0f4004f in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0x00007ffff0f4004f in raise () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00007ffff0f4147a in abort () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x00007ffff58400f4 in  () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #3  0x00007ffff5840b19 in  () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0x00007ffff5841668 in g_slice_alloc () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #5  0x00007ffff58416fe in g_slice_alloc0 () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #6  0x00007ffff5b212b4 in g_type_create_instance () at
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #7  0x00007ffff5b031fb in  () at /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #8  0x00007ffff5b0510e in g_object_new_valist () at
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #9  0x00007ffff5b053b1 in g_object_new () at /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #10 0x00000000004e4187 in  ()
> #11 0x0000000000009cc0 in  ()
> #12 0x000000000000b2b0 in  ()
> #13 0x00000000011f1c30 in  ()
> #14 0x00000000010bfcc3 in  ()
> #15 0x0000000000000000 in  ()

The only thing I've found related to this issue is a NEWS thread from
2005, though I am unsure as to how relevant this is for the current
problem.

<http://gnu.emacs.bug.narkive.com/6nDY0MRn/lib-ld-linux-so-2-usr-bin-emacs-fails-memory-exhausted>

The reason as to why I'm launching Emacs in this way is that I am
deploying cross-distribution portable packages of emacs that ship their
own versions of the shared libraries. In order for this to work I need
to ensure that the libraries are loaded from a custom folder, rather
than from the standard system directories. I need to invoke ld-linux.so
directly in order to do this.

Interestingly enough, if I build such a deployed package on the working
Linux Mint system --including all required shared libraries and
ld-linux.so in itself-- and copy it over to one of the other systems, it
launches just fine. Still, I would rather not have to potentially be
restricted to a build system that might break at any moment due to an
update to the Kernel or some other component that might trigger the bug.

If there's any other data that I could provide in order to help resolve
this issue, I would be more than happy to do what I can.

Sincerely, Nicolas Hafner



In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.9)
 of 2016-09-18 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000
System Description:    Arch Linux

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe
 -fstack-protector-strong' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=uim
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: REPL

Minor modes in effect:
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  auto-composition-mode: t
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  line-number-mode: t
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Recent messages:
../../usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/uim-el/uim.el: (lambda (x) ...) quoted
with ' rather than with #' [9 times]
‘epa-file’ already enabled
Polling "/tmp/slime.989" .. 1 (Abort with ‘M-x slime-abort-connection’.)
Starting new Ispell process /usr/bin/aspell with british dictionary...
Polling "/tmp/slime.989" .. 2 (Abort with ‘M-x slime-abort-connection’.)
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Polling "/tmp/slime.989" .. 3 (Abort with ‘M-x slime-abort-connection’.)
Polling "/tmp/slime.989" .. 4 (Abort with ‘M-x slime-abort-connection’.)
Connecting to Swank on port 33717..
Connected. Hack and be merry!

Load-path shadows:
/home/linus/.emacs.d/elpa/cmake-mode-20160928.505/cmake-mode hides
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode
/home/linus/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.16/seq hides
/usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/seq

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Memory information:
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Message #8 received at 24708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu>
Cc: mordocai <at> mordocai.net, 24708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24708: 25.1;
 Launching Emacs Under ld-linux.so Results in Memory Exhausted on Some
 Linuxes
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:45:16 -0400

Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu> writes:

> Attempting to run Emacs 25.1 with ld-linux.so under certain Linux
> distributions will cause an immediate crash with a "Memory exhausted"
> message. I can reproduce this consistently under Arch Linux (Kernel
> 4.8.1-1) and Debian Stretch (Kernel 4.6.0-1). However, Emacs launches
> just fine with ld-linux under Linux Mint 17.1 (Kernel 3.13).

Does still happen with Emacs 26.1?  There's been some changes to memory
allocater selection since then.

Message #11 received at 24708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24708: 25.1; Launching Emacs Under ld-linux.so Results in
 Memory Exhausted on Some Linuxes
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 11:31:24 +0200

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I've tested it with 26.1 and indeed the problem seems to have been
fixed. Fantastic!


On 06/06/18 01:45, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> Nicolas Hafner <shinmera <at> tymoon.eu> writes:
>
>> Attempting to run Emacs 25.1 with ld-linux.so under certain Linux
>> distributions will cause an immediate crash with a "Memory exhausted"
>> message. I can reproduce this consistently under Arch Linux (Kernel
>> 4.8.1-1) and Debian Stretch (Kernel 4.6.0-1). However, Emacs launches
>> just fine with ld-linux under Linux Mint 17.1 (Kernel 3.13).
> Does still happen with Emacs 26.1?  There's been some changes to memory
> allocater selection since then.
>

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