Re: experiences with images based on current layer heads

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 14:17 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Andreas Müller
> <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when migration of systemd to oe-core turned to unbuildable I decided
> > to freeze my images and stopped further tests. Now that many issues
> > were fixed and we are close to another release I built my standard
> > xfce-based image based on latest layer HEADs. With this I face some
> > issues which I would like to share:
> >
> > 1. X sessions crash with OOM. This is reproducible by opening
> > google-maps with midori and changing to satellite view. In
> > Xorg.0.log.old I see only
> >
> > | (EE)
> > | (EE) Backtrace:
> > | (EE)
> > | (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x9
> > | (EE) BUG: triggered 'if (inSignalContext)'
> > | (EE) BUG: log.c:502 in LogVMessageVerb()
> > | (EE) Warning: attempting to log data in a signal unsafe manner while
> > in signal context.
> > | Please update to check inSignalContext and/or use
> > LogMessageVerbSigSafe() or ErrorFSigSafe().
> > | The offending log format message is:
> > |
> > | Fatal server error:
> > |
> > | (EE)
> > | (EE) Backtrace:
> > | (EE)
> 
> Seems I found this one: it is caused by undefined signedness for char.
> ARM uses unsigned by default but in the code we find
> 
> if (pClient->smart_priority < 0)
> 
> After final tests and sending upstream I'll send a patch here.

Nice work in tracking that down! :)

Cheers,

Richard