Re: [PATCH 1/1] qemu: Use mesa's libGL rather than nVidia's to avoid segfault of qemu

["Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>]

Mark,
It doesn't work on my ubuntu 10 system:(

gzhai@yocto-build3:/distro/edwin-working/poky/build-arm-bernard$ ldd 
/distro/edwin-working/poky/build-arm-bernard/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm|grep 
-i nvidia
18:     libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 
(0x00007f1c5f4ac000)
    26: libnvidia-tls.so.260.19.06 => 
/usr/lib/nvidia-current/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.260.19.06 (0x00007f1c5e462000)
    27: libnvidia-glcore.so.260.19.06 => 
/usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.260.19.06 (0x00007f1c5c889000)


gzhai@yocto-build3:/distro/edwin-working/poky/build-arm-bernard$ ll 
/usr/lib/libGL* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     13 2011-02-28 20:26 
/usr/lib/libGL.so -> mesa/libGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931734 2010-10-01 01:21 /usr/lib/libGLU.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 2011-02-28 20:26 /usr/lib/libGLU.so -> 
libGLU.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     20 2011-02-28 13:45 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> 
libGLU.so.1.3.070900
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 465520 2010-10-01 01:21 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.070900




Mark Hatle wrote:
>
> On 3/17/11 7:41 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >> From: Mark Hatle
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:03 PM
> >>
> >> I reworked the patch slightly.. It's available on poky-contrib
> >> mhatle/qemu-workaround.
> >>
> >> Specifically I changed:
> >> - the warning message to make clarify it a bit.
> >> - Changed the preload to be "libGL.so", so the rt-linker will now 
> search for it
> >> (/usr/lib/libGL.so may be wrong on some systems where /usr/lib64 is 
> the
> >> default
> >> library path)
> >
> > Just double confirm here. You are sure that just "libGL.so" will hit 
> /usr/lib/libGL.so
> > instead of the nvidia proprietary one, right? I'm interesting how 
> nvidia
> > proprietary driver is linked to qemu binary then? I can understand 
> why Edwin
> > originally use full path to make sure default one being used, but of 
> course it may
> > be wrong as you said on some system.
>
> By specifying "libGL.so", it will cause the ld.so to resolve the path 
> using the
> normal resolution.  Usually the nVidia stuff is linked in via 
> libGL.so.1 or
> similar.  libGL.so is usually only used for development linking.
>
> >> - Added a second check to see if the workaround worked or not, if 
> it didn't add
> >> a second warning message
> >> - To the QEMU run line, add "stty sane" in the case of a failure.  
> Otherwise
> >> QEMU leaves the terminal/console in a confused state.
> >>
> >> Can you please verify that this still works on the Ubuntu systems 
> and that I
> >> didn't miss anything/break anything else?  If so I think this is 
> the version we
> >> should go with.
> >
> > Edwin is out of office in the morning, and he will confirm them once 
> he's back.
>
> ok.
>
> --Mark
>
> > Thanks
> > Kevin
> >
> >>
> >> --Mark
> >>
> >> On 3/17/11 7:22 AM, Zhai Edwin wrote:
> >>> From: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> Proprietary nVidia driver introduce its own libGL that precede 
> mesa's.
> >>> qemu has segfault if linked with it. This fix try to use mesa's libGL
> >>> if ldd find qemu linked with nVidia libGL.
> >>>
> >>> [YOCTO #649]
> >>> [YOCTO #698]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  scripts/poky-qemu-internal |   16 +++++++++++++++-
> >>>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/scripts/poky-qemu-internal b/scripts/poky-qemu-internal
> >>> index 3638a65..1f09fe7 100755
> >>> --- a/scripts/poky-qemu-internal
> >>> +++ b/scripts/poky-qemu-internal
> >>> @@ -436,10 +436,24 @@ else
> >>>      echo "Warning: distccd not present, no distcc support loaded."
> >>>  fi
> >>>
> >>> +# qemu got segfault if linked with nVidia's libgl
> >>> +GL_LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD
> >>> +
> >>> +if ldd $QEMUBIN | grep -i nvidia &> /dev/null
> >>> +then
> >>> +    echo "************** !!!Warning!!! **************
> >>> +    You installed nVidia's libGL.so that probably lead qemu 
> segfault!
> >>> +    Pls. uninstall proprietary nVidia driver or make mesa libgl 
> precede
> >> nvidia's."
> >>> +
> >>> +    # To avoid segfault of qemu, skip nVidia's libGL and use 
> mesa's instead
> >>> +    echo "Skip nVidia's libGL!"
> >>> +    GL_LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libGL.so $LD_PRELOAD"
> >>> +fi
> >>> +
> >>>  echo "Running $QEMU..."
> >>>  # -no-reboot is a mandatory option - see bug #100
> >>>  echo $QEMUBIN -kernel $KERNEL $QEMUOPTIONS $SERIALOPTS
> >> -no-reboot $SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT $SCRIPT_QEMU_EXTRA_OPT --append
> >> '"'$KERNCMDLINE $SCRIPT_KERNEL_OPT'"'
> >>> -$QEMUBIN -kernel $KERNEL $QEMUOPTIONS $SERIALOPTS -no-reboot
> >> $SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT $SCRIPT_QEMU_EXTRA_OPT --append "$KERNCMDLINE
> >> $SCRIPT_KERNEL_OPT" || /bin/true
> >>> +LD_PRELOAD="$GL_LD_PRELOAD" $QEMUBIN -kernel $KERNEL
> >> $QEMUOPTIONS $SERIALOPTS -no-reboot $SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT
> >> $SCRIPT_QEMU_EXTRA_OPT --append "$KERNCMDLINE
> >> $SCRIPT_KERNEL_OPT" || /bin/true
> >>>
> >>>  cleanup
> >>>
> >>
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