[Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#975696: link-grammar: multi-thread test fails

[Graham Inggs]

Source: link-grammar
Version: 5.8.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-sugar-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org, dr at jones.dk
Control: block 972670 by -1

Hi Abiword and Sugar Maintainers (since link-grammar is orphaned)

The upload of link-grammar 5.8.0-1 intermittently FTBFS on several
architectures, e.g. arm64 [1], armel [2] and ppc64 [3].  The failures
all happen during the multi-thread test with various errors:
double free or corruption (fasttop)
free(): invalid pointer
malloc_consolidate(): invalid chunk size
Segmentation fault
corrupted double-linked list

Giving back the builds eventually works, and link-grammar is currently
built on all release architectures.  However, this same test is run
during the autopkgtest and for some reason always fails on armhf [4].
This prevents the migration of link-grammar 5.8.0-1 to testing, and
will eventually cause the autoremoval of abiword and sugar from
testing.

Would you please have a look?

Regards
Graham


[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=link-grammar&arch=arm64&ver=5.8.0-1%2Bb1&stamp=1606121733&raw=0
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=link-grammar&arch=armel&ver=5.8.0-1%2Bb1&stamp=1605753701&raw=0
[3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=link-grammar&arch=ppc64&ver=5.8.0-1%2Bb1&stamp=1606118399&raw=0
[4] https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/link-grammar/testing/armhf/