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

[H.J. Lu]

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?


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H.J.