[Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU: "qemu -M pc" works, "qemu-i386" crashes.

[Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU: "qemu -M pc" works, "qemu-i386" crashes.

[Alexander van Heukelum]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:22:19 -0400, "Rob Landley" <rob@landley.net>
said:
> On Sunday 24 June 2007 09:13:57 Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > $SUBJECT
> >
> > At least for me ;), for the latest snapshot of qemu, on Ubuntu 7.04
> > on an AMD Opteron system.
> 
> Yeah, I think that's what I'm seeing too.  Could you tell the list
> instead of 
> just me? :)
> 

Hi all,

Well, http://qemu.com/lists.html is down at the moment, so I have no
idea if the fix has appeared here yet, but the patch attached to the
following Ubuntu bug report fixes the segfault at startup of qemu-i386.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/90660

(patch copy/pasted below, so it will be damaged)

--- linux-user/main.c   (révision 527)
+++ linux-user/main.c   (copie de travail)
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 /* for recent libc, we add these dummy symbols which are not declared
    when generating a linked object (bug in ld ?) */
-#if (__GLIBC__ > 2 || (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 3)) &&
!defined(CONFIG_STATIC)
+#if (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ == 3) && !defined(CONFIG_STATIC)
 long __preinit_array_start[0];
 long __preinit_array_end[0];
 long __init_array_start[0];

> Rob
> -- 
> "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
>   - Ken Thompson.
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[Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU: "qemu -M pc" works, "qemu-i386" crashes.

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 25 June 2007 10:37:27 Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> --- linux-user/main.c   (révision 527)
> +++ linux-user/main.c   (copie de travail)
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
>
>  /* for recent libc, we add these dummy symbols which are not declared
>     when generating a linked object (bug in ld ?) */
> -#if (__GLIBC__ > 2 || (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 3)) &&
> !defined(CONFIG_STATIC)
> +#if (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ == 3) && !defined(CONFIG_STATIC)
>  long __preinit_array_start[0];
>  long __preinit_array_end[0];
>  long __init_array_start[0];

Nope, I still get an immediate segfault on the snapshot from the 23rd.

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.