[ncl-install] ncl on solaris 10 sparc core dumps
Mary Haley
haley at ucar.edu
Wed Jun 24 14:35:08 MDT 2009
Opesh,
Can you send me the output from the compilation, so I can see what
flags were used?
I want the one from where you removed optimization for all of the HLU
library.
Thanks,
--Mary
On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Alkara, Opesh wrote:
> Hi Mary,
>
> Thanks for directions. I disabled optimization and re-compiled to
> generate a new binary but the problem seem to persist. Below is the
> trace output from core. It looks like these functions call each other
> recursively and control never returns to calling function. May be a
> glitch in the condition checks before functions are called? I will
> continue to investigate further but please let me know if there is
> something I am missing.
>
> -Opesh
>
>
> Reading libc_psr.so.1
> t at 1 (l at 1) program terminated by signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault
> address)
> Current function is _NhlVarToSetArgList
> 55 register int i=0;
> (dbx)
> (dbx) where
> current thread: t at 1
> =>[1] _NhlVarToSetArgList(list = <bad address 0x7f7fdd28>, args = <bad
> address 0x7f7fdd20>), line 55 in "VarArg.c"
> ---- 1 following frame from gwindows -- possible stack overflow
> [2] NhlVACreate(pid = 0xffffffff7f805f2c, name = 0x100fe7aa0
> "hlu", lc
> = 0x1011881d8, parentid = 0, ... = (nil), ...), line 746 in "Create.c"
> [3] AppInitialize(lc = 0x1011881d8, req = 0x10218f3e0, new =
> 0x10218f150, args = 0xffffffff7f80eb10, nargs = 3), line 538 in
> "App.c"
> [4] CallInitialize(lc = 0x1011881d8, req = 0x10218f3e0, new =
> 0x10218f150, args = 0xffffffff7f80eb10, nargs = 3), line 266 in
> "Create.c"
> [5] _NhlCreate(pid = 0xffffffff7f81ed7c, name = 0x100fe7aa0
> "hlu", lc
> = 0x1011881d8, parentid = 0, args = 0xffffffff7f816c40, nargs = 3,
> child
> = (nil)), line 634 in "Create.c"
> [6] NhlVACreate(pid = 0xffffffff7f81ed7c, name = 0x100fe7aa0
> "hlu", lc
> = 0x1011881d8, parentid = 0, ... = (nil), ...), line 749 in "Create.c"
> [7] AppInitialize(lc = 0x1011881d8, req = 0x10218f010, new =
> 0x10218ed80, args = 0xffffffff7f827960, nargs = 3), line 538 in
> "App.c"
> [8] CallInitialize(lc = 0x1011881d8, req = 0x10218f010, new =
> 0x10218ed80, args = 0xffffffff7f827960, nargs = 3), line 266 in
> "Create.c"
> [9] _NhlCreate(pid = 0xffffffff7f837bcc, name = 0x100fe7aa0
> "hlu", lc
> = 0x1011881d8, parentid = 0, args = 0xffffffff7f82fa90, nargs = 3,
> child
> = (nil)), line 634 in "Create.c"
> [...snip]
>
>
> Flow:
> ---------
>
>
> Line 634: Create.c (func: _NhlCreate)
>
> 633
> 634 lret = CallInitialize(lc,request,layer,largs,nlargs);
> 635 (void)NhlFree(request);
>
> Line 266: Create.c (func: CallInitialize)
>
> 264 if(lc->base_class.layer_initialize != NULL )
> 265 class =
> (*(lc->base_class.layer_initialize))(lc,req,new,args,
> 266 nargs);
> 267 return(MIN(ancestor,class));
>
> Line 534: App.c (func: AppInitialize)
>
> 533
> 534 lret = NhlVACreate(&tint,"hlu",NhlappClass,0,
> 535 _NhlNappMode, lang_type,
> 536 _NhlNdefApp, True,
> 537 _NhlNnoAppDB, True,
> 538 NULL);
>
> Line 749: Create.c (func: NhlVACreate)
>
> 748
> 749 ret = _NhlCreate(pid, name, lc, parentid, args, num_args,
> NULL);
> 750
>
> [ ] back again to top => Line: 634 Create.c (func: _NhlCreate)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Haley [mailto:haley at ucar.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:30 PM
> To: Alkara, Opesh
> Cc: ncl-install at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] ncl on solaris 10 sparc core dumps
>
> Hi Opesh,
>
> This sounds like an optimization problem. Thanks for the debugging
> effort here, as it helps determine the problem.
>
> Try this:
>
> - cd $NCARG/ni/src/lib/hlu
> - Edit the "Makefile" and change all occurences of "-O" to "-g"
> - Type:
> /bin/rm Create.o
> make includes depend all install
> cd ../../ncl
> make install
>
> This should rebuild the HLU library with optimization for "Create.c"
> taken down a notch.
> Then, "ncl" will get rebuilt against the new library.
>
> If this doesn't work, then try turning off optimization for all *.o
> files in
> the HLU library with:
>
> make clean includes depend all install
> cd ../../ncl
> make install
>
> --Mary
>
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Alkara, Opesh wrote:
>
>>
>> I was not sure whether this post would go to ncl-talk or ncl-
>> install but
>> since the problem was more related to how NCL was compiled, I am
>> posting
>> this to ncl-install.
>>
>> ncl_ncargs-5.1.1 builds successfully on Solaris 10 sparc (64-bit) but
>> when I try to run the binary it dumps core. I saw stack of core,
>> found
>> that 3-4 functions are being called over and over until program
>> seg-faults. I am using sun studio 12.0 compiler. I removed
>> optimization
>> in compilation to see if that fixes the issue but that didn't help.
>> The
>> same version of NCL builds fine on solaris 10 x86 64-bit (almost with
>> same C and F flags as that of sparc build). I searched for function
>> _NhlCreate and NhlVACreate and found that they are defined within
>> ni/src/lib/hlu/Create.c, so, I believe the hlu compilation is not
>> going
>> well?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> |user at delta 19:27:01 /var/tmp/ncl_studio/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1|make
>>
>> NCL/NCAR Graphics - Version 5.1.1 Installation Configuration
>>
>> System File Sun4Solaris
>> Binary Install Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin
>> Library Install Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib
>> Include Install Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/include
>> Manpage Install Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/man
>> Config Install Directory
>> /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/config
>> Data Base Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/database
>> Programmer Doc Dir /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/doc
>> Reloc Obj. Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/robj
>> Examples Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/examples
>> Tutorial Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/tutorial
>> Test Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/tests
>> X App. Def. Directory /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/xapp
>> f77 Compiler f90
>> f77 Flags -xarch=sparcvis -m64 -g
>> -R/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib -R/usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.3 -O
>> C Compiler cc
>> cc Flags -xarch=sparcvis -m64 -g
>> -R/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib -R/usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.3 -O
>> -I./include -I/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/include -I/usr/openwin/
>> include
>> -I/usr/dt/include -DSYSV -D_REENTRANT -DByteSwapped -D__64BIT__
>> -DNeedFuncProto
>> |user at delta 19:27:02 /var/tmp/ncl_studio/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1|
>>
>>
>> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin # ./ncl
>> Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.1
>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
>> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin #
>>
>>
>> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin # pstack core
>> core 'core' of 8361: ./ncl
>> 00000001003e1834 _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f81565c, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48, 0,
>> ffffffff7f805458, 3) + 74
>> 00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f81565c, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48,
>> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>> 000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1ec0,
>> ffffffff7f816060, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>> 00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf2150, 101bf1ec0,
>> ffffffff7f816060, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>> 00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f82e33c, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48, 2,
>> ffffffff7f81e138, 3) + 9cc
>> 00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f82e33c, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48,
>> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>> 000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1af0,
>> ffffffff7f82ed40, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>> 00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf1d80, 101bf1af0,
>> ffffffff7f82ed40, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>> 00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f84701c, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48, 2,
>> ffffffff7f836e18, 3) + 9cc
>> 00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f84701c, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48,
>> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>> 000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1720,
>> ffffffff7f847a20, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>> 00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf19b0, 101bf1720,
>> ffffffff7f847a20, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>> 00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f85fcfc, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48, 2,
>> ffffffff7f84faf8, 3) + 9cc
>> 00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f85fcfc, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48,
>> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>> 000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1350,
>> ffffffff7f860700, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>> 00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf15e0, 101bf1350,
>> ffffffff7f860700, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>> 00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f8789dc, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48, 2,
>> ffffffff7f8687d8, 3) + 9cc
>> 00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f8789dc, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48,
>> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>> 000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf0f80,
>> ffffffff7f8793e0, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>> 00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf1210, 101bf0f80,
>> ffffffff7f8793e0, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>> 00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f8916bc, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48, 2,
>> ffffffff7f8814b8, 3) + 9cc
>>
>> [...snip ]
>>
>> 00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7ffee93c, 100a68780,
>> 100c05e48,
>> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>> 000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bde5c0,
>> ffffffff7ffef340, 2, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>> 00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bde810, 101bde5c0,
>> ffffffff7ffef340, 2, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>> 00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7ffffa4c, 100a5d8a8,
>> 100c05e48, 1,
>> ffffffff7fff7418, 2) + 9cc
>> 00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7ffffa4c, 100a5d8a8,
>> 100c05e48,
>> 0, 100cde4f8, 1) + 80
>> 0000000100069dd4 main (1, ffffffff7ffffbf8, ffffffff7ffffc08,
>> ffffffff7c949468, ffffffff79700140, ffffffff79700180) + 694
>> 000000010006971c _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 17c
>> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin #
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