GNU bug report logs - #36811
Guile crashes with libgc 8.0.4

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:27:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 36812, 39208, 39241, 39266, 39988

Done: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>

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From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36811 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36811: Guix fails to build with libgc 8.0.4
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:16:58 +0100

On 06.02.20 15:07, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> As discussed yesterday on #guix, I tried this:
>
>    guix build guile3.0-guix --with-input=libgc <at> 7=libgc <at> 8
>
> as of Guix commit 9d0dfd9a9a7c43363a4e140c20d49f119fe6f2e3.  Guile 3.0.0
> itself builds fine (test suite included), but the build of Guix crashes
> like this (on x86_64-linux-gnu):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/icu4c.go
> [ 77%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/idris.go
> [ 77%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/idutils.go
> [ 77%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/image.go
> [ 77%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/image-processing.go
> [ 77%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/image-viewers.go
> mmap(PROT_NONE) failed
> /gnu/store/29jhbbg1hf557x8j53f9sxd9imlmf02a-bash-minimal-5.0.7/bin/bash: line 7: 26886 Aborted                 XDG_CACH
> E_HOME=/nowhere host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu srcdir="." ./pre-inst-env /gnu/store/dcsjagbjlhjj40g30lb88wx3zybmh07g-gui
> le-next-3.0.0/bin/guile -L "." -L "." --no-auto-compile -s "."/build-aux/compile-all.scm guix/base16.scm guix/base32.sc
> m guix/base64.scm guix/ci.scm guix/cpio.scm guix/deprecation.scm guix/docker.scm guix/json.scm guix/records.scm guix/pk
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This is exactly the error I see on Tumbleweed and what this issue is
about :) This is good, so I guess it also has the same root somewhere in
guile<->libgc8.

> Apparently the message and abort come from ‘GC_unmap’ or ‘GC_unmap_gap’
> in libgc, but I have no idea what to think about it.  Could it be a heap
> exhaustion issue or similar?  That’s not impossible.

Thanks for providing the reproducer!
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