Erlang/OTP R10B-8 has been released

[Michael McDaniel]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:01:57PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Claes Wikstrom writes:
>  > 
>  > Bugreport:
>  > 
>  > # uname -a
>  > Linux harr 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 #2 Wed Apr 27 00:08:44 CEST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>  > #  cat /proc/cpuinfo
>  > processor       : 0
>  > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>  > cpu family      : 15
>  > model           : 3
>  > model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
>  > .........
>  > 
>  > Plain configure, no extra flags
>  > 
>  > I get:
>  > 
>  > # erlgdb
>  > 
>  > ....
>  > 
>  > (gdb) bt
>  > #0  0xb7e0ac06 in __pthread_sighandler () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
>  > #1  <signal handler called>
>  > #2  0xb7f03671 in fts_children () from /lib/libc.so.6
>  > #3  0x080ecac7 in check_io (do_wait=1) at sys/unix/sys.c:2506
>  > #4  0x080ed57b in erl_sys_schedule (runnable=0) at sys/unix/sys.c:3366
>  > #5  0x0809cb8a in schedule (p=0x0, calls=0) at beam/erl_process.c:477
>  > #6  0x080d3f47 in process_main () at beam/beam_emu.c:1148
>  > #7  0x0807639f in erl_start (argc=4, argv=0x0) at beam/erl_init.c:902
>  > #8  0x08065d8b in main (argc=-4, argv=0xfffffffc) at sys/unix/erl_main.c:28
>  > (gdb) quit
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > where the debug script is:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > # cat ~/bin/erlgdb
>  > #!/bin/sh
>  > 
>  > BREAK_POINT=main
>  > 
>  > gdb_exec=/tmp/erlgdb.$$
>  > 
>  > export ROOTDIR=/usr/local/src/otp_src_R10B-8
>  > export BINDIR=${ROOTDIR}/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu
>  > # to find inet_gethost
>  > export PATH=${BINDIR}:${PATH}
>  > 
>  > echo "echo ERLGDB RUNNING\\n" > $gdb_exec
>  > echo "break $BREAK_POINT" >> $gdb_exec
>  > echo "directory $ROOTDIR/erts/emulator/beam"  >> $gdb_exec
>  > echo "run -- -root $ROOTDIR"  >> $gdb_exec
>  > gdb -x $gdb_exec ${BINDIR}/beam
>  > rm $gdb_exec
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Rebuilding with:
>  > 
>  > # ./configure --disable-hipe
>  > 
>  > Fixes the problem (or ehhum, doesn't coredump)
>  > What the exact problem is, I have no idea.
> 
> Here we go again. There have been some reports from Gentoo and Ubuntu
> users that a HiPE-enabled system on x86 breaks for them. However:
> 1) There's no breakage on RedHat/Fedora-based systems. I just tried
>    your gdb thing on FC4/x86 and everything works just fine.
> 2) We (the HiPE group) don't run Gentoo/Ubuntu/${random distro} so we
>    can't debug issues on them.
> 3) So far no Gentoo/Ubuntu user has volunteered to debug their systems.
> 
> So I'm getting to the point where I'm considering changing erts/configure.in
> to not auto-enable HiPE/x86 except on Fedora and Solaris.
> 
> For the record, the problem is most likely in HiPE/x86' code to
> override certain libc signal setup procedures in order to enforce
> the use of SIGALTSTACK. This is very delicate libc-dependent code.
> See erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_x86_signal.c for details.
> 
> /Mikael
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh, dear.  My "Ubuntu release 5.10" is not breaking, so I do not know
what I could do to help.  Let me know, though, if there is something
I can do to help.

*Because*, my new "desktop of choice" is Ubuntu distro (as you may know,
based on Debian), and I would like to have it be a "first class" Erlang
platform because I am now doing all my development on the new laptop.
I have been using SuSE for years and just switched to Ubuntu because 
I was concerned what Novell might do with SuSE.  The Ubuntu installed
easily and "everything" just works on my Dell 700m.  (except movies;
I keep getting "codec not installed" for whatever movie format I try
and since watching vids is *so* far down on my list, I haven't 
seriously done troubleshooting for that issue).

Erlang R10B-8 seems to be working just fine on my installation.

Here is my Ubuntu release 5.10 information ...


$ uname -a
Linux delora 2.6.12-9-386 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 598.161
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 1185.79


$ ./configure  --with-odbc --x-includes=/usr/local/include \
   --x-libraries=/usr/lib --with-ssl

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$ make
$ sudo make install ; echo "remember to untar the new docs"
$
$ erl
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.10 [source] [hipe]

Eshell V5.4.10  (abort with ^G)
1> q()
ok
2>
$
$ 

~~Michael