Bug#479204: boinc-client crashes frequently on mac mini powerpc hardware

[Jeremy Spykerman]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 5.10.45-2
Severity: important


boinc-client 5.10.45-2 fails to run for any significant period of time on my powerpc (mac mini) hardware. The version in debian stable works with no trouble (5.4.11-4). Here is a segment from the log file and a back trace using gdb.

log file segment:

SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Stack trace (7 frames):
/usr/bin/boinc_client[0x100544a0]
[0x100344]
/usr/bin/boinc_client[0x1003e08c]
/usr/bin/boinc_client[0x10019f70]
/usr/bin/boinc_client[0x1004397c]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xf9f4720]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xf9f48e0]


gdb session:

(gdb) run --check_all_logins --redirectio --dir /var/lib/boinc-client
Starting program: /usr/bin/boinc_client --check_all_logins --redirectio --dir /var/lib/boinc-client
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x48026880 (LWP 19048)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x48026880 (LWP 19048)]
HOST_INFO::users_idle (this=<value optimized out>, check_all_logins=false, idle_time_to_run=<value optimized out>)
    at hostinfo_unix.C:774
774     hostinfo_unix.C: No such file or directory.
        in hostinfo_unix.C
(gdb) bt
#0  HOST_INFO::users_idle (this=<value optimized out>, check_all_logins=false, idle_time_to_run=<value optimized out>)
    at hostinfo_unix.C:774
#1  0x10019f70 in CLIENT_STATE::poll_slow_events (this=0x10099878) at client_state.C:499
#2  0x1004397c in boinc_main_loop () at main.C:471
#3  0x0f9f4720 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x0f9f48e0 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 1 (Thread 0x48026880 (LWP 19048)):
#0  HOST_INFO::users_idle (this=<value optimized out>, check_all_logins=false, idle_time_to_run=<value optimized out>)
    at hostinfo_unix.C:774
#1  0x10019f70 in CLIENT_STATE::poll_slow_events (this=0x10099878) at client_state.C:499
#2  0x1004397c in boinc_main_loop () at main.C:471
#3  0x0f9f4720 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x0f9f48e0 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x00000000 in ?? ()


-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.

# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"

# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC client and all its
# sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's performance).
SCHEDULE="1"

# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"

# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"

# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses. 
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc_4.25"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc_client"

# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                3.107             add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates        20080411          Common CA certificates
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.21            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3               7.18.1-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-8          SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-11            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  python                 2.5.2-1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false