bug#66610: Acknowledgement (potrace, po4a; guix bug, complete console output)

[Olav Smorholm]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Olav Smorholm wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 06:48:26PM +0200, Olav Smorholm wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 08:52:13PM +0200, Olav Smorholm wrote:
> > >
> > 
> > And call it, or view is it as you may; no trivial task to determine if
> > the guix binary bug and crash was useful or not.
> > 
> > But in the process, while for other things after; starting to study
> > dmesg. Bluez and related things that awaken bluetooth kernel subsystems
> > is less of an aesthetic problem.
> > 
> > I react somewhat on PF_ALG especially, weird segfault that calls itself
> > xsltproc, and that there even exist segfaults and protection faults as
> > if checking for a kernel that is newer than minix era is
> > necessary. As false positives and negatives for intent to hide even the
> > oldest and most deprecated "hello world" crud.
> 
> I'm sure interesting talks can be had:
> 
> [73428.629504] ptrace attach of 
> "/tmp/guix-build-libinput-minimal-1.22.1.drv-0/build/libinput-test-suite 
> --filter-group=touchpad --xml-output=junit-touchpad-XXXXXX.xml"[417] was 
> attempted by 
> "/tmp/guix-build-libinput-minimal-1.22.1.drv-0/build/libinput-test-suite 
> --filter-group=touchpad --xml-output=junit-touchpad-XXXXXX.xml"[419]
> [73428.640092] ptrace attach of 
> "/tmp/guix-build-libinput-minimal-1.22.1.drv-0/build/libinput-test-suite 
> --filter-group=touchpad-tap --xml-output=junit-touchpad-tap-XXXXXX.xml"[420] 
> was attempted by 
> "/tmp/guix-build-libinput-minimal-1.22.1.drv-0/build/libinput-test-suite 
> --filter-group=touchpad-tap --xml-output=junit-touchpad-tap-XXXXXX.xml"[422]
> [75861.720983] traps: bonobo-activati[4394] trap int3 ip:7ffff7bf39cf 
> sp:7fffffffbd80 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.7200.3[7ffff7bb7000+88000]
> [77216.387681] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
> [77216.387730] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
> [77216.387732] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
> [77216.387739] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
> [77216.387742] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
> [77216.387748] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
> [77917.396492] python[11571]: segfault at 0 ip 00007ffff75198c0 sp 
> 00007fffffffb2c8 error 4 in _testcapi.so[7ffff7519000+6000] likely on CPU 10 
> (core 4, socket 0)
> [77917.396513] Code: 00 48 83 00 01 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 d0 48 85 d2 74 08 48 
> 83 00 01 c3 0f 1f 00 48 8b 05 11 a7 00 00 48 83 00 01 c3 0f 1f 40 00 <8b> 04 
> 25 00 00 00 00 0f 0b 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 08 48 8b
> [77971.483788] python[19206]: segfault at 0 ip 00007ffff75198c0 sp 
> 00007fffffffb2c8 error 4 in _testcapi.so[7ffff7519000+6000] likely on CPU 10 
> (core 4, socket 0)
> 

Not sure if I have point, it's an argument at least.
That the guix binary is a bit of target for the classical problems
involved. And who knowns, maybe one can find a K&R "hello world" string
in a binary as the best and worst of it.

But this is inherently ugly, to see the measures and crud involved, with
awareness of developers that it touch upon sensitive subsystems.
And may very well make it more accessible for study, publications and
discussions if just shafted and most likely fale positives with academic
print og preprint review.