[hobbit] building on Mandriva Corporate Server 4

[Ralph Mitchell]

On 11/21/06, Daniel J McDonald <dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 08:56 -0600, Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> > I finally broke my bb environment, so I'm again trying to get hobbit
> > working.  I took the srpm provided by Mandriva, replaced the allinone
> > patch they had from Sep25 with the one from October 3rd, rebuilt the
> > package, and installed it.  When starting it, I see the following
> > messages in /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log
> > 2006-11-21 08:10:49 hobbitlaunch starting
> > 2006-11-21 08:10:49 Loading tasklist configuration
> > from /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
> > 2006-11-21 08:10:49 xfree: Trying to free a NULL pointer
>
> I finally found the core file:
> [hobbit at ldap ~]$ gdb /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch core
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> This GDB was configured as "i586-mandriva-linux-gnu"...(no debugging
> symbols found)
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...(no
> debugging symbols found)...done.
> Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xffffe000
> Core was generated by `/usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch
> --config=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hob'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
>
> warning: svr4_current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map:
> Input/output error
>
> Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb7dd7051 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #2  0xb7dd8a3b in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #3  0x0804e238 in ?? ()
> #4  0x08053c50 in _IO_stdin_used ()
> #5  0xbf8ff04c in ?? ()
> #6  0xbf90004c in ?? ()
> #7  0xb7d2d008 in ?? ()
> #8  0x080552e4 in stdin ()
> #9  0x00000000 in ?? ()
>
> I'll try to hunt down the package that provides lib/tls and see if I can
> get a -debug packaghe loaded.

I believe you'll find that /lib/tls is part of glibc.  It's something
to do with threads.  Sorry I can't be a bit more specific, but I do
remember it coming up in a discussion elsewhere about
threaded/non-threaded C libs.

Ralph Mitchell