Bug#733204: boinc-app-seti causes segfault in boinc-client on armel

[Ken Sharp]

Package: boinc-app-seti
Version: 7.00~svn1933-1
Severity: grave
Usertags: unwarranted-self-importance-upstream
Control: found -1 boinc-client/7.2.33+dfsg-1
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu

Running the setiathome_advanced binary from boinc-app-seti (from 
Unstable) on an armel chroot causes boinc-client to segfault immediately.

<core_client_version>7.2.33</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 193 (0xc1, -63)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
boinc-app-seti is invoked with the following arguments:
--start
--end.
I: boinc_parse_init_data_file
I: boinc_get_init_data
I: boinc_init
I: worker
I: worker() - common_init
I: worker() - read_wu_state
SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Stack trace (9 frames):
/usr/lib/libboinc.so.7(boinc_catch_signal+0xd8)[0x40078470]
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc.so.6(__default_sa_restorer_v2+0x0)[0x405b2bb0]
../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_enhanced(+0x658d0)[0x2a0658d0]
../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_enhanced(+0x24fbc)[0x2a024fbc]
../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_enhanced(+0x205d4)[0x2a0205d4]
../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_enhanced(+0x272d0)[0x2a0272d0]
../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_enhanced(+0x27660)[0x2a027660]
../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_enhanced(main+0x21c)[0x2a006de0]
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x118)[0x4059c0cc]

Exiting...

</stderr_txt>
]]>

I have tried on multiple devices and even qemu-arm-static but the result 
is always the same.

Upstream have a version which works natively with Android, so it should 
be possible, although using the available binaries causes issues which I 
have no yet looked into further.

The only other package to test is from Squeeze but that is too old 
(version 5.x).

Originally reported at 
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=73619 which included 
details of testing but removed by a childish moderator (reported).