Emacs and LLD

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 11/03/17 16:29, Tobias Kortkamp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I cannot build editors/emacs-nox11 (or any other Emacs port) on FreeBSD
> 12 anymore for several months now.  The build aborts with:
> 
> ./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
> Fatal error 'Can't allocate initial thread' at line 337 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c (errno = 12)
> gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:737: bootstrap-emacs] Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> I'm currently running base r324724.  Emacs builds fine on the cluster,
> so I thought installing the binary package from pkg.FreeBSD.org would be
> an OK solution, but it immediately crashes too.
> 
> My src.conf has WITH_LLD_IS_LD=yes and reading
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/214864 leads me to believe that it's somehow
> responsible for the problems I have with Emacs.
> 
> Setting LLD_UNSAFE=yes in the port does not solve the problem.  If I
> manually link temacs statically the build can continue, however the
> emacs binary temacs dumps is not usable and immediately crashes.
> 
> I can "solve" the problem (in the sense that I can run Emacs again
> outside of a chroot/jail) by extracting /lib/libc.so.7 from a recent
> snapshot (I tried with 20171012-r324542 and the current base.txz
> snapshot) not built with LLD and running it with
> 
> LD_PRELOAD="/path/to/libc.so.7" emacs
> 
> It'll do for now, but this just doesn't feel right...
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide!
> 
> Backtrace from temacs:
> 
> * thread #1, name = 'temacs', stop reason = signal SIGABRT
>    * frame #0: 0x0000000800e089aa libc.so.7`__sys_thr_kill at
>    thr_kill.S:3
>      frame #1: 0x0000000800e08974 libc.so.7`__raise(s=6) at raise.c:52
>      frame #2: 0x0000000800e088e9 libc.so.7`abort at abort.c:65
>      frame #3: 0x0000000800c8c88a
>      libthr.so.3`_thread_exitf(fname=<unavailable>, lineno=<unavailable>,
>      fmt=<unavailable>) at thr_exit.c:193
>      frame #4: 0x0000000800c8a02e
>      libthr.so.3`_libpthread_init(curthread=0x0000000000000000) at
>      thr_init.c:337
>      frame #5: 0x0000000800c8d4b2 libthr.so.3
>      frame #6: 0x0000000800c8d4d6 libthr.so.3`_init + 14
>      frame #7: 0x00000008007b0058
>      ld-elf.so.1`objlist_call_init(list=<unavailable>,
>      lockstate=<unavailable>) at rtld.c:2643
>      frame #8: 0x00000008007af3eb
>      ld-elf.so.1`_rtld(sp=0x00007fffffffdf08,
>      exit_proc=0x00007fffffffdeb0, objp=0x00007fffffffdeb8) at rtld.c:759
>      frame #9: 0x00000008007ad019 ld-elf.so.1`.rtld_start at
>      rtld_start.S:39
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Hi,

security.bsd.stack_guard_page: 1

Does setting the above sysctl to zero make any difference?

--HPS