Debian Bug report logs - #309677
Dumps core on Alpha

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Dumps core on Alpha

Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:29:38 +0200

Package: asc
Version: 1.16.0.0-1
Severity: grave

When I start asc, I get a screen with some aircrafts for a second or
so, and then:

falk@juist:~% asc
open /dev/sequencer: No such device
zsh: abort (core dumped)  asc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: alpha
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages asc depends on:
ii  aalib1        1.4p5-22                   ascii art library
ii  asc-data      1.16.0.0-1                 data files for the Advanced Strate
ii  libartsc0     1.3.2-3                    aRts Sound system C support librar
ii  libasound2    1.0.8-3                    ALSA library
ii  libaudio2     1.7-2                      The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6                    Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libc6.1       2.3.2.ds1-22               GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0       0.2.35-2                   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexpat1     1.95.8-3                   XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfreetype6  2.1.7-2.4                  FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1       1:4.0-0pre9                GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.6.4-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libjpeg62     6b-10                      The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5   5.4-4                      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0       1.1.2-1                    Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libparagui1.0 1.0.4-8                    a real crossplatform widget set ba
ii  libphysfs-1.0 1.0.0-4                    filesystem abstraction library for
ii  libpng12-0    1.2.8rel-1                 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsdl-image1 1.2.4-1                    image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl-mixer1 1.2.6-1                    mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl1.2debi 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsigc++-1.2 1.2.5-4                    type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libsmpeg0     0.4.5+cvs20030824-1        SDL MPEG Player Library - shared l
ii  libstdc++5    1:3.3.6-5                  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4      3.7.2-2                    Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libvorbis0a   1.1.0-1                    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile 1.1.0-1                    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6      4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6      4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxt6        4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  slang1        1.4.9dbs-8                 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii  xlibs         4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.2-4                  compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>, 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: Dumps core on Alpha

Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 01:27:22 -0700

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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:29:38PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Package: asc
> Version: 1.16.0.0-1
> Severity: grave

> When I start asc, I get a screen with some aircrafts for a second or
> so, and then:

> falk@juist:~% asc
> open /dev/sequencer: No such device
> zsh: abort (core dumped)  asc

Confirmed as well with the version in sarge.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Message #15 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Dumps core on Alpha

Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 04:13:55 -0700

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Here's the (not so useful) backtrace:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000120111a2c in putchar ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000120111a2c in putchar ()
#1  0x0000000120111dd0 in putchar ()
#2  0x00000001200c5374 in putchar ()
#3  0x00000001200c5228 in putchar ()
#4  0x00000001200c5020 in putchar ()
#5  0x00000001200c4eb4 in putchar ()
#6  0x000000012003bb44 in std::operator+<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > ()
#7  0x000000012003c90c in std::operator+<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > ()
#8  0x0000000120223954 in std::_Rb_tree_rebalance_for_erase ()
#9  0x000000012003f2b4 in std::operator+<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > ()
Cannot access memory at address 0x20000e68e88
(gdb)


-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Message #20 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: Dumps core on Alpha

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:05:53 +0200

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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:13:55AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Here's the (not so useful) backtrace:
 
[...]

Thanks Steve.

Since I don't have access to alpha desktop it would be quite hard to debug
the problem. 

One more question. Does it segfault with `asc -q` switch?

regards
fEnIo


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Message #25 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>

To: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>

Cc: 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: Dumps core on Alpha

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:31:52 +0200

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:05:53PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> Since I don't have access to alpha desktop it would be quite hard to debug
> the problem. 

I doubt this is relevant for the bug, but Valgrind shows several errors in
the memory handling. For instance, asc allocates memory with new[] some
places and then later free it with asc_free() (graphicset.cpp:199 and
sg.cpp:309); another problem is that it deletes "void*"-pointers, which gives
undefined behaviour (g++ complains about this). Second, there are several
uses of uninitialised values (which could make bugs crop up on one platform
but not another); I won't list them all here, but simply running "valgrind
asc -w" (on x86, of course) shows quite a lot of them. (Some are due to X,
but the others should really be fixed.)

Also note that there are several places where g++ warns "array subscript has
type char". As the signedness of char is undefined, this may very well be a
pile of portability bugs waiting to happen...

BTW, setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt" doesn't work, since you only override
CFLAGS, not CXXFLAGS.

/* Steinar */
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Message #30 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>

Cc: 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: Dumps core on Alpha

Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:47:20 -0700

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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:05:53PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:13:55AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Here's the (not so useful) backtrace:

> Since I don't have access to alpha desktop it would be quite hard to debug
> the problem. 

> One more question. Does it segfault with `asc -q` switch?

Yes, it does.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Message #35 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Martin Bickel" <bickel@asc-hq.org>

To: "Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo" <fenio@debian.org>

Cc: "309677@bugs.debian.org" <309677@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: crash on alpha

Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:49:26 +0200

On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:07:25 +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:

>Do you have any clue what could cause this crash on alpha architecture?

Sorry, I don't know what's going wrong. But to be honest, I would have
been surprised if ASC did run on Alpha out of the box...

I don't expect the changes to get ASC to run on other platforms to be
big, but without such machines I can't find the problems myself. The
delete void* and char array subscripts should not be the source of any
portability problems, that should work in those circumstances, however
ugly it is. Instead I suspect some structure alignment issues because
ints are 64 Bit on Alpha - unlike AMD64, where an int is still 32 bit. 

Currently only i386 and AMD64 are known to work, PowerPC support is on
the way.

I'm very aware that there are foul things under the hood of ASC (using
valgrind myself) : primarily the graphics engine with its MS-DOS
legacy. I'm working on a complete replacement which will result in ASC
2.0, but that's still several month off. 


Regards,
   Martin

Message #40 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Martin Bickel <bickel@asc-hq.org>, 309677@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: crash on alpha

Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:05:42 -0700

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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:49:26PM +0200, Martin Bickel wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:07:25 +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:

> >Do you have any clue what could cause this crash on alpha architecture?

> Sorry, I don't know what's going wrong. But to be honest, I would have
> been surprised if ASC did run on Alpha out of the box...

> I don't expect the changes to get ASC to run on other platforms to be
> big, but without such machines I can't find the problems myself. The
> delete void* and char array subscripts should not be the source of any
> portability problems, that should work in those circumstances, however
> ugly it is. Instead I suspect some structure alignment issues because
> ints are 64 Bit on Alpha - unlike AMD64, where an int is still 32 bit. 

No, they are not.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Message #45 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please reupload for i386/amd64 only

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:35:55 +0200

Hi,
could you please "fix" this by uploading the latest version of asc with
the archs list trimmed down to i386 and amd64, the archs that seem
officially supported by upstream, to t-p-u?

asc has been removed from Sarge for now and it seems quite silly to
exclude a really well-made game from Sarge just because it has problems
on a fringe architecture hardly anyone uses nowadays, while it's working
for the two archs that cover at least 95% of the installed base. I've
played the i386 version for quite some time and it's nowhere in a
non-releasable state. It can than be ported to alpha in sid after Sarge
has been released.

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #50 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>

To: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>, 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: Please reupload for i386/amd64 only

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:34:41 +0200

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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:35:55PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> could you please "fix" this by uploading the latest version of asc with
> the archs list trimmed down to i386 and amd64, the archs that seem
> officially supported by upstream, to t-p-u?

I'm not sure if it is possible to "fix" it this way. If some package was
released/built for all archs and then there are problems on one of them
then it is RC bug. Reuploading without problematic arch isn't considered as
a solution for this RC bug. 

But as I said I'm not sure about this.

> asc has been removed from Sarge for now and it seems quite silly to
> exclude a really well-made game from Sarge just because it has problems
> on a fringe architecture hardly anyone uses nowadays, while it's working
> for the two archs that cover at least 95% of the installed base. I've
> played the i386 version for quite some time and it's nowhere in a
> non-releasable state. It can than be ported to alpha in sid after Sarge
> has been released.

Yep it works great on i386 for me.

regards
fEnIo

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Message #55 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lior Kaplan <webmaster@guides.co.il>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <309677@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: asc: official archs support

Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:28:21 +0300

Package: asc
Followup-For: Bug #309677

>> could you please "fix" this by uploading the latest version of asc with
>> the archs list trimmed down to i386 and amd64, the archs that seem
>> officially supported by upstream, to t-p-u?
>
>I'm not sure if it is possible to "fix" it this way. If some package was
>released/built for all archs and then there are problems on one of them
>then it is RC bug. Reuploading without problematic arch isn't considered as
>a solution for this RC bug. 

you said only i386 & ia64 are officialy supported, so why not to exclude platform which don't have support?

The of course means that a whishlist bug should be reported to add alpha support.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Message #60 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>

To: 309677@bugs.debian.org, 309677-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: asc

Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 12:41:18 +0200

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Hello.

Falk could you please test new version of asc? According to authors it
supports powerpc, so maybe support for other archs is better too.

If not then I'll ask ftp-masters for removing all not supported archs for
now.

regards
fEnIo

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Message #68 received at 309677@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>

To: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>

Cc: 309677@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#309677: asc

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:40:52 +0200

Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org> writes:

> Falk could you please test new version of asc? According to authors it
> supports powerpc, so maybe support for other archs is better too.

It seems to work as of 1.16.2.0-1. BTW, you should try to fix this:

../../ASCStringHelpers.h: In static member function 'static int ASCStringHelpers::_Printf(const char*, ...)':
../../ASCStringHelpers.h:445: warning: cannot pass objects of non-POD type 'struct va_list' through '...'; call will abort at runtime

(it seems to be dead code, but still... what you want here is
"vprintf".)

-- 
	Falk

Message #73 received at 309677-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org>

To: 309677-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#309677: fixed in asc 1.16.2.0-2

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:17:05 -0700

Source: asc
Source-Version: 1.16.2.0-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
asc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

asc-data_1.16.2.0-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/asc/asc-data_1.16.2.0-2_all.deb
asc_1.16.2.0-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/a/asc/asc_1.16.2.0-2.diff.gz
asc_1.16.2.0-2.dsc
  to pool/main/a/asc/asc_1.16.2.0-2.dsc
asc_1.16.2.0-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/a/asc/asc_1.16.2.0-2_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 309677@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org> (supplier of updated asc package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:07:34 +0200
Source: asc
Binary: asc asc-data
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.16.2.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org>
Description: 
 asc        - turn-based strategy game
 asc-data   - data files for the Advanced Strategic Command game
Closes: 309677 322198
Changes: 
 asc (1.16.2.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Seems that asc (at least without networking support) works on all archs,
     so we're going to support them again. (Closes: #322198, #309677)
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