GNU bug report logs - #40525
inferior process on core-updates crashes: mmap(PROT_NONE) failed

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 40525 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40525: inferior process on core-updates crashes: mmap(PROT_NONE) failed
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:02:20 +0200

Hi,

Glad you manage to get more info.

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:

> Following up on this, I've built Guile on core-updates with libgc <at> 7
> rather than libgc <at> 8 (which is what's used above), and I can't reproduce
> the issue. So, I'm getting more certain that this is a regression which
> the libgc upgrade has led to.

Bah.  :-/

We noticed similar issues with libgc <at> 8 earlier but it seemed to be
fixed:

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36812

> Would it be feasible to keep guile, or at least the guile Guix uses with
> libgc <at> 7 for now?

Yes, we can define a Guile variant in (gnu packages guile) and have
(guix self) refer to it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.