Re: [RFC]: Test Were failing on Fedora Linux.

[Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 9:01 AM Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Usman,
>
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 10:33 AM Usman Akinyemi
> <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 3:12 AM Christian Couder
> > <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > You can run each failing test with some options like -i and -v to get
> > > more information, like for example:
> > >
> > > $ ./t0000-basic.sh -i -v
> >
> > I was using make before. I tried to run the single test as above, the error was
> > ERROR: ld.so: object 'libc_malloc_debug.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot
> > be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored
> > I tried to check this online, but, all the solutions I found were not
> > resolving it.
>
> First, as a workaround, maybe you can try:
>
> $ TEST_NO_MALLOC_CHECK=1 ./t0000-basic.sh -i -v
>
> to see if things work when disabling malloc checks.
>
> Anyway the issue might be related to how your shared libraries are
> installed, so using ldconfig might help:
>
> $ sudo ldconfig
>
> Alternatively you can try replacing the following line in t/test-lib.sh:
>
>                  LD_PRELOAD="libc_malloc_debug.so.0"
>
> with:
>
>                  LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libc_malloc_debug.so.0"
>
> This is a hack but it might help understand what's going on if it works.
Hi Christian.

Thanks for this, the problem was due to the architecture, the one
/usr/lib/libc_malloc_debug.so.0 was 32bit,
I had to download the 64bit by downloading glibc-utils.x86_64. I did
not face this when I was using Arch Linux.

Thank you.
Usman.
>
> > I look for libc_malloc_debug.so.0 and it is located in /usr/lib
> > uniqueusman@fedora:~/git/t$ sudo find / -name "libc_malloc_debug.so.0"
> > find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied
> > find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied
> > /usr/lib/libc_malloc_debug.so.0
>
> Yeah, not sure why it doesn't work while you have it.
>
> Best,
> Christian.