Segfaults when staging into destroot

[Dave Murray-Rust]

On 1 Oct 2007, at 07:28, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Sep 22, 2007, at 13:59, Dave Murray-Rust wrote:
>
>> I'm having real hassles with port - most packages fail to install,  
>> with a segfault, e.g.:
>>
>> groke:503:dave>port install tiff
>> --->  Fetching zlib
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for zlib
>> --->  Extracting zlib
>> --->  Applying patches to zlib
>> --->  Configuring zlib
>> --->  Building zlib with target all
>> --->  Staging zlib into destroot
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** error for object 0x312770: double free
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** error for object 0x312770: double free
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** error for object 0x312770: double free
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> --->  Installing zlib 1.2.3_1
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** error for object 0x313760: double free
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** error for object 0x313790: double free
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** error for object 0x3137f0: double free
>> tclsh(394) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> Segmentation fault
>
> That should not happen (obviously). Never seen this problem before.
>
>> I've tried using a different tclsh, but the same problem persists.  
>> I'm not certain whether port is using the new one... I've exported  
>> PATH=/usr/local/bin, and which tclsh points to the newly installed  
>> ActiveState tclsh, but I don't know if port uses its own internal  
>> version or something?
>>
>> Any suggestions on where to start debugging this?
>>
>> So far I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, selfupgrade,  
>> moving fink (/sw) out of the way in case it was causing a  
>> conflict, but with no luck. I get this problem on almost all  
>> packages. Interestingly, it was not there originally - at least,  
>> there are some packages which I had installed before I removed and  
>> reinstalled port, which now fail to install.
>
> Make sure you have the latest OS and all updates (10.4.10 or  
> 10.3.9). Make sure you have the latest Xcode (2.4.1 for 10.4.10;  
> 1.5 for 10.3.9). Make sure you have the latest MacPorts (1.5.2).  
> Make sure you do NOT have anything at all installed in /sw, /usr/ 
> local or any other place referenced in your PATH. Just have  
> MacPorts, which is usually in /opt/local. It works great by itself,  
> but other software installed in other locations can cause  
> unpredictable problems.
>

OSX == 10.4.10, Xcode == 2.4.1
OK, I've moved everything which was installed (temporarily):

dhcp-2-178:508:dave>echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ 
local/bin:/usr/texbin
dhcp-2-178:509:dave>ls /sw
ls: /sw: No such file or directory
dhcp-2-178:510:dave>ls /usr/local/bin
ls: /usr/local/bin: No such file or directory
dhcp-2-178:511:dave>port --version
MacPorts 1.520
Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
[Users/dave] > ^D
Goodbye
dhcp-2-178:512:dave>sudo port install tiff
--->  Installing zlib 1.2.3_1
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** error for object 0x311fc0: double free
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** error for object 0x312020: double free
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** error for object 0x311e20: double free
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** error for object 0x312020: double free
tclsh(8332) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
Segmentation fault

Cheers,
dave