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misiak is offline misiak
2014-01-05 , 01:50
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#3049
Originally Posted by sulu View Post
Just to get that straight, gparted doesn't crash on armel/hf in general. It works fine on my Cubieboard2 (armhf) and it worked fine in my qemu-arm installation (armel).
It only crashes in ED, no matter if armel or armhf.

For reference:
This is the error message which appears right after the GUI comes up, tries to scan available devices and crashes:
Code:
*** glib detected *** /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00285ae0 ***
strace doesn't reveal any further useful info (at least to my understanding) and google doesn't return any results.
As I said, I have no idea how to debug that, but then again I'm a very poor programmer (as in writing C(++) code). So if somebody else has any pointers (pun intended) I'd be happy to assist in tracking the problem down as good as I can.
Great work! Some ideas:

1. I suppose both Cubieboard2 and your pc with qemu-arm installation have newer kernels than 2.6.28? The reason I'm asking is I've seen in my past glibc crashes when specific combination of glibc version and kernel version, and quick googling returned some other case where a person with kernel 2.6.28 had "...gpartedbin: free(): invalid pointer..." error [1]. Are you able to install second kernel on your pc, preferably 2.6.28? Googling told me Cubieboard2 supports 3.something (3.4?) kernels only, so I guess downgrading that one is not possible.

2. Again very remote guess, but could you try running gparted from console with "LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libstdc++.so" ? This is based again on some googling results, mostly one explanation of possible cause of "...free(): invalid pointer..." issues when some of the libraries are compiled with incorrect flags [2] and related ubuntu bug [3]. Maybe comparing "ldd /usr/sbin/gpartedbin" from Cubieboard2, from qemu-armel environment on pc and from n900 in both armel and armhf image would also show something suspicious or give any clues (it would be nice if you could also post them here for reference).

edit: 3. Posting strace would be nice, too (maybe it will provide some suspiciously looking data for some other community member, without the need to run the ED and gparted).

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1211516.html
[2] https://www.libavg.de/site/projects/...nvalid-pointer
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...sa/+bug/259219
 

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