Re: vi and glibc 2.12: Assertion `_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize !=0

[Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>]

On 22/05/10 07:46, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz<arekm@maven.pl>  wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 of May 2010, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > With glibc 2.12 vi (from vim 7.2.422) started dying here with:
> > >
> > > 188679 write(2, "vi: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:32:
> > > __getpagesize: Assertion `_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize != 0' failed.\n",
> > > 118) = 118
> > >
> > > Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen this?
> >
> > Simple reproducer for:
> >
> > [arekm@carme-pld ~]$ ./a.out
> > a.out: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:32: __getpagesize: Assertion
> > `_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize != 0' failed.
> >
> > [arekm@carme-pld ~]$ cat a.c
> > #include<sys/types.h>
> > #include<pwd.h>
> > int main() {
> >
> >         getpwnam("root");
> >         return 0;
> > }
> >
> > [arekm@carme-pld ~]$ gcc a.c -static
> > /home/users/arekm/tmp/ccedPM2o.o: In function `main':
> > a.c:(.text+0xa): warning: Using 'getpwnam' in statically linked applications
> > requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for
> > linking
> > [arekm@carme-pld ~]$ ./a.out
> > a.out: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:32: __getpagesize: Assertion
> > `_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize != 0' failed.
> > zsh: abort      ./a.out
> > [arekm@carme-pld ~]$ gcc --version
> > gcc (PLD-Linux) 4.5.0 20100520 (release)
> > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> I have no problem with glibc 2.12 on Linux/ia32
> and Linux/Intel64. Can you try gcc 4.4.4 instead of
> gcc 4.5.0?

I have no problem on Linux/i686 with gcc-4.5-20100520 and the current 
glibc release/2.12/master.

Allan