[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#970344: ncbi-blast+: tblastn segfaults intermittently with multiple threads

[Étienne Mollier]

Hi Aaron,

Aaron M. Ucko, on 2020-09-15 16:01:33 -0400:
> I captured this crash, but getting to the root cause turned out to be
> difficult.  The good news is that the latest upstream 2.10.1 release
> should include a pair of commits with promising messages:
> 
>   Fix tblastn mt issue (seqdb changes), JIRA:SB-2784 [1]
>   Fix tblastn mt issue (engine changes),JIRA:SB-2784 [2]
> 
> It also contains at least one x86ism I'll need to conditionalize
> appropriately, but that should be straightforward enough.
> 
> As such, I plan to put further investigation on hold in hopes that the
> upgrade will suffice, and to take care of the latter when I get a chance.

Sounds good to me, we may work the issue around by single
threading execution of tblastn in the meantime, and use this bug
as reference when we hit this problem again.

Thanks for your investigations,
-- 
Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier at mailoo.org>
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