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guile-bootstrap@2.2 segfault?

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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Subject: bug#34427: guile-bootstrap <at> 2.2 segfault?
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:14:32 +0200

Hi,

It is about this old report #34427x [1].

1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34427>

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 10:17, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 09:45, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>>> The problem has to do specifically with powerpc-linux-gnu (this is with
>>>> transparent emulation via QEMU+binfmt_misc):
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> $ unshare -mrf chroot $(guix build guile-static-stripped --target=powerpc-linux-gnu) /bin/guile
>>>> guile: warning: failed to install locale
>>>> GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread
>>>> GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat
>>>> Pre-boot error; key: wrong-type-arg, args: (#f "Wrong type to apply: ~S"
>>>> (#f) (#f))qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped
>>>> Aborted
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately I fail to get a backtrace from that core dump.
>>>>
>>>> Efraim, could you get a backtrace on the bare metal?
>>
>> Sorry I wasn’t clear; could you get a backtrace from GDB, as in:
>>
>>   …/bin/guile
>>   # segfault
>>   gdb …/bin/guile core
>>
>> and then at the GDB prompt:
>>
>>   bt

What is the status?  Since a release is maybe coming, it could be the
opportunity to tackle it… or not. :-)

Cheers,
simon

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