[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#827473: ostree: FTBFS on mipsel: "ostree pull" sometimes gets SIGBUS, SIGSEGV

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 at 12:06:12 -0400, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I'm trying to reproduce this failure on the porterbox etler.debian.org
> by rebuilding the package or by using the installed-tests from 2016.5-3.

I can reproduce it eventually, but the gdb report is unhelpful. Is there
anything special that I'd need to do to get a useful backtrace on mipsel?

(gdb) thread apply all bt full

Thread 3 (LWP 4232):
#0  0x775b697c in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

Thread 2 (LWP 4215):
#0  0x7777ec60 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

Thread 1 (LWP 4231):
#0  0x777d151c in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

To reproduce:

* build ostree (I used 2016.5-4)
* while TEST_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 make check-TESTS TESTS=tests/test-pull-archive-z.sh; do :; done
  (and let it run for a while until it fails)
* look for a line like "Skipping cleanup of /var/tmp/tap-test.7eaT36" in
  test-suite.log
* ./libtool --mode=execute gdb ostree /var/tmp/tap-test.7eaT36/core

I'm going to try with valgrind, and if I can't get anything useful out of
that, either ignore the test failure on mipsel, or ask for the 2016.5-3
binaries to be removed so they don't block ostree migrating to testing
on other architectures.

    S