From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C5BE004E9 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 07:59:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 6F6FF1660321; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:59:27 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB89916602EE; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:59:21 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4E89CDC9.9050500@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:59:21 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poky Project References: <4E862363.8010704@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <4E862363.8010704@mlbassoc.com> Subject: Re: web2 on PPC X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:59:29 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2011-09-30 14:15, Gary Thomas wrote: > I'm trying to run the web-webkit browser on my PowerPC system (built using Poky). > I've built this on ARM and it runs great, but on PowerPC it fails almost immediately. > Following into the failure with GDB, it looks like it's trying to build up a string > using a [possibly] wide character iterator. It fails on line 76 of the code below, > going through it by hand shows that 'iterator' is NULL. > > (gdb) dir /local/logopak8347tbga_new/tmp/work/ppc603e-amltd-linux/webkit-gtk-1.5.1+svnr90727-r0 > (gdb) l > 71 TextBreakIterator* acquireLineBreakIterator(const UChar* string, int length, const AtomicString& locale) > 72 { > 73 UBreakIterator* iterator = LineBreakIteratorPool::sharedPool().take(locale); > 74 > 75 UErrorCode setTextStatus = U_ZERO_ERROR; > 76 ubrk_setText(iterator, string, length, &setTextStatus); > 77 if (U_FAILURE(setTextStatus)) { > 78 LOG_ERROR("ubrk_setText failed with status %d", setTextStatus); > 79 return 0; > 80 } > (gdb) b 75 > Breakpoint 1 at 0xf8a7440: file Source/WebCore/platform/text/TextBreakIteratorICU.cpp, line 75. > > Any ideas what might be wrong here? Maybe some confusion about wide vs not-wide > character representation (I've seen this one a lot, especially on PowerPC systems)? > Any clues where to look next? > I did note that 'locale' into this function is also NULL. > > Should I file a bug? > > Note: I tried this with the stock Poky master 9d1db6cc928199f8ac4960e8d4648563ef141427 > building for qemuppc and running web2 via ssh -X (since qemu doesn't support graphics?) > The failure is the same, so this is not something special in my setup. > > Note 2: it's difficult to get this to fail when running in qemu since it only fails > when it's loading and rendering the www.google.co.uk default page. I couldn't figure > out how to get my qemu system to be able to access that page over the net, but I ran > the same Yocto filesystem on my hardware (this is not a hardware bug) with the same > failure. Maybe someone smarter than me can show me how to get qemu to actually access > the internet (when the machine that's running qemu is inside a NAT'd zone)? > > Thanks for any help/ideas > Filed as http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570 Still looking for ideas on where to look, how to debug this. Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------