[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#626946: zsh-static fails to start at all

[Gergely Nagy]

Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> writes:

> Package: zsh
> Version: 4.3.11-5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Rationale: zsh-static is a shell used for root and in fall-back
> scenarios. As it does not work at all, this can make system maintenance
> or repairing this hard to impossible.
>
> % zsh-static -f
> zsh-static: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:32: __getpagesize:
> Assertion `_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize != 0' failed.
> [1]    8747 abort      zsh-static -f
> % echo $?
> 134
> % 

I have seen similar problems with other statically linked programs
aswell. If the program uses nss or any other thing that glibc dlopens()
at run-time, then this problem has a very high chance of happening.

I've seen it with the following program aswell (compiled with gcc -O2
-static):

#include <iconv.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main () {
  iconv_t x;
  x = iconv_open ("UTF-8", "UTF-32LE");
  printf ("%d\n", errno == EINVAL);
  return 0;
}

Though, it doesn't happen on current unstable, it did happen about 2
weeks ago. I didn't bother debugging it further unfortunately.

I don't think this issue is limited to zsh-static alone.

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