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

[Allan McRae]

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