bug#39266: Finalization thread hits wrong-type-arg on weak vector (AArch64)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> skribis:

> While building the “guix-system.drv” derivation on AArch64, I got this
> crash (not fully deterministic but quite frequent).  Here the
> finalization thread gets a wrong-type-arg in ‘scm_i_weak_car’ (i.e.,
> accessing a one-element weak vector):
>
> $ ( export out=$PWD/build; unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH; unset 
> GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH; gdb --args 
> "/gnu/store/p8in2npgl5yhliy25ikz7shjbq0gii95-guile-next-3.0.0/bin/guile" 
> "--no-auto-compile" "-L" 
> "/gnu/store/3qg8l6kr4wa9sbgwy00z1mb3p88xf455-module-import" "-C" 
> "/gnu/store/h9qcvg71bmx735fsndagll9y7s72k9n9-module-import-compiled" 
> guix-system-builder )
> […]
> loading 'gnu/services/cups.scm'...
> Backtrace:

Apparently this bug does not occur with v3.0.0-23-g7dc90a17e¹.  It may
be that 00fbdfa7345765168e14438eed0b0b8c64c27ab9 reduces GC pressure,
which as a side effect makes the problem vanish.

It’s not satisfactory, but as a stop-gap measure, we could release 3.0.1
like this, which could make Guile 3 usable for Guix on AArch64.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

¹ Specifically, I tested by (1) building a tarball with “make dist”, (2)
  running “guix build guile-next
  --with-source=guile-next=the-tarball.tar.gz”, and (3) running that
  Guile in the code above.  For some reason, Guile 3.0.0 built “by hand”
  would not reproduce the original bug, which is why I built it through
  Guix.