Segfaults when staging into destroot

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 04:45, Dave Murray-Rust wrote:

> 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

Don't know what's going on. I agree with Paul -- can we see some  
debug output please?

sudo port clean --work zlib
sudo port -dv install zlib

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