[DRE-maint] Bug#827220: ruby-kgio FTBFS on hppa architecture

[Eric Wong]

Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:40:51PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > [Switching to Thread 0xfa5dd480 (LWP 29258)]
> > mix_id_table_lookup (tbl=0x0, id=id at entry=3265, valp=valp at entry=0xfa55f248) at id_table.c:1516

tbl=0x0 looks like a bug in Ruby; possibly GC-related.

> > 1516    id_table.c: No such file or directory.
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  mix_id_table_lookup (tbl=0x0, id=id at entry=3265, valp=valp at entry=0xfa55f248) at id_table.c:1516
> > #1  0xf9c91b04 in lookup_method_table (id=3265, klass=<optimized out>) at vm_method.c:190
> > #2  search_method (defined_class_ptr=<optimized out>, id=<optimized out>, klass=<optimized out>) at vm_method.c:701
> > #3  method_entry_get_without_cache (defined_class_ptr=<optimized out>, id=<optimized out>, klass=<optimized out>) at vm_method.c:726
> > #4  method_entry_get (klass=1134408, id=3265, id at entry=1134408, defined_class_ptr=defined_class_ptr at entry=0xfa55f1c8) at vm_method.c:786
> > #5  0xf9c94e90 in rb_callable_method_entry (klass=<optimized out>, id=1134408, id at entry=4199936456) at vm_method.c:831
> > #6  0xf9ca6048 in rb_search_method_entry (mid=4199936456, recv=1134408) at vm_eval.c:573
> > #7  rb_call0 (recv=1134408, mid=4199936456, argc=3265, argv=0xfa55f248, scope=<optimized out>, self=<optimized out>) at vm_eval.c:343
> > #8  0xf9ca6984 in rb_call (scope=CALL_FCALL, argv=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, mid=<optimized out>, recv=<optimized out>) at vm_eval.c:637
> > #9  rb_funcall (recv=<optimized out>, mid=<optimized out>, n=<optimized out>) at vm_eval.c:835
> > #10 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> > 
> > I assume it's a problem in ruby2.3 itself, but since I'm no expert in 
> > ruby2.3, is there anyone who might be able to help?
> > I can provide a login to a hppa box if necessary...

Seems to be a ruby2.3 problem.
Does the ruby2.3 test suite work at all on hppa?
Any other ruby libraries with similar problems?
Thanks.

(I'm kgio upstream, and occasional ruby-core committer).