Re: [Qemu-devel] glibc abort if -snapshot is used

From: "Rene Horn" <the.rhorn@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] glibc abort if -snapshot is used
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:40:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8e8c9290608222040y6fa1409al132923c331c8fab7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156291360.28673.8.camel@r51.oakcourt.dyndns.org>

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Why not just build it right from the source instead of using debhelper?
With that, just have install into /usr/local.

Rene

On 8/22/06, Andrew Barr <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am installing some software (iTunes) in my Windows 2000 SP4 virtual
> machine. I don't know what it is going to /do/, specifically, to my VM
> so I would like to run QEMU in snapshot mode so that I can commit system
> changes only if desired. However, when I run qemu like this, I get into
> trouble:
>
> andrew@r51:~$ qemu -hda .disk/win2k.dsk -m 256 -snapshot -kernel-kqemu
> -usb -usbdevice tablet -localtime -smb /home/andrew
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0xAborted
>
> Sometimes it finishes printing the address: 0x09b2c738
>
> The SDL window never comes up, the abort is instanenous. I did a
> backtrace but because I built Debian packages debhelper strips the debug
> information out, so it doesn't say much. I can rebuild QEMU with debug
> information and obtain a proper backtrace if it would be useful to
> someone.
>
> This is a QEMU 0.8.2 CVS snapshot of 2006/08/19. I did a 'cvs up' on my
> source tree, only the documentation has been updated since then.
> Normally I run this VM exactly the same except without the '-snapshot'
> parameter. If I remove that, it starts up as expected.
>
> The disk image is QCOW2 and kqemu is 1.3.0pre9 (BTW, '-no-kqemu' without
> '-kernel-kqemu' makes no difference)
>
> glibc is 2.3.6-ds1-2 from Debian sid. QEMU was compiled with GCC 3.4.6
> also from Debian.
>
> --
> Andrew Barr | http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/
>
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>
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