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Bug 1779399

Summary: .gnu.build.attributes problems causing FTBFS on f30, f31
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component: binutilsAssignee: Nick Clifton <nickc>
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2019-12-03 22:24:00 UTC
On f31 and f30, similar .gnu.build.attributes-related error messages are causing an elfutils COPR build to fail.  On f31, this is observed with the 2.32-29 binutils version (with the note-merging fix); on f30, the same fix is not yet in the buildroot due to bodhi just pushing it.  But we have the same apparent failure, both with and without this .gnu.build.attributes-related fix.

 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fche/elfutils/build/1123340/

Comment 1 Nick Clifton 2019-12-04 13:00:59 UTC
Hi Frank,

> On f31 and f30, similar .gnu.build.attributes-related error messages are
> causing an elfutils COPR build to fail

Just to be clear, it is error messages from the elfutils tests that are 
blocking the build from completing right ?  The actual build of the
elfutils does succeed.

The issue is that the build is using glibc-2.30-7.fc31 which has corrupted
notes in the crti.o and crtn.o object files.  What we need is a rebuild of
glibc.  This will fix the notes and then the problem should go away.  I
have pinged the Fedora glibc maintainers and requested just such a thing.

Cheers
  Nick

Comment 2 Mark Wielaard 2019-12-04 13:06:21 UTC
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #1)
> Just to be clear, it is error messages from the elfutils tests that are 
> blocking the build from completing right ?  The actual build of the
> elfutils does succeed.

The elfutils build as a whole fails, because it expects the testsuite to be zero fail. But yes, the build itself "succeeds" but various (self) tests fail because they encounter corrupt ELF notes.

> The issue is that the build is using glibc-2.30-7.fc31 which has corrupted
> notes in the crti.o and crtn.o object files.  What we need is a rebuild of
> glibc.  This will fix the notes and then the problem should go away.  I
> have pinged the Fedora glibc maintainers and requested just such a thing.

Eep. That would indeed explain it. This is pretty bad, because crti.o and crtn.o are basically included into every binary.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2019-12-04 22:07:34 UTC
FEDORA-2019-46ef941af9 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-46ef941af9

Comment 4 Arjun Shankar 2019-12-04 22:13:25 UTC
...and here's the Fedora 30 update for glibc:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7153dc69ea

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-12-05 01:23:49 UTC
glibc-2.30-8.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-46ef941af9

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-12-05 02:01:17 UTC
glibc-2.29-27.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7153dc69ea

Comment 7 Jakub Čajka 2019-12-05 15:49:47 UTC
For the record I have seen golang tests(cgoshared, cgo dynamic linking, in notes section parsing test) failures with glibc glibc-2.30-7 on most of the 64bit arches. Latest build in glibc-2.30-8.fc31 seems to fix this issue.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-12-06 05:45:10 UTC
glibc-2.30-8.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-12-07 01:31:03 UTC
glibc-2.29-27.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Florian Weimer 2020-01-17 12:11:38 UTC
Has this issue been addressed by now? Thanks.

Comment 11 Mark Wielaard 2020-01-17 13:10:06 UTC
I have since done a success elfutils koji build on f30, f31 and rawhide (testsuite all green, including the self tests). So I believe it has been resolved. But I don't know about copr.

Comment 12 Nick Clifton 2020-01-21 14:36:15 UTC
I am going to close this as resolved then, since I think that there is nothing left that we need to do.