clisp testing on linux

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info
Tue Dec 18 23:49:21 UTC 2018


Are you getting that error on the same test (`test-encodings.script`), 
or is it in a different test script?

It would be interesting if it's on the same test, because I am *not* 
seeing this error, and maybe it's causing the segmentation fault.  Would 
you post the context of the error?

Thanks!
R


On 18 Dec 2018, at 17:43, Faré wrote:

> Well, CLISP is known for its deterministic but chaotic segfaults (i.e.
> sensitive to the slightest perturbation in input), probably due to
> some GC bug somewhere, which would explain your failure.
>
> Interestingly, I experience a different failure using GNU CLISP
> 2.49.60+ (2017-06-25) on NixOS 18.09.1228.a4c4cbb613c, I instead get:
> TEST ABORTED:
> POSIX:COPY-FILE: illegal keyword/value pair :METHOD, :RENAME in 
> argument list.
> The allowed keywords are NIL
>
> This suggests that uiop/filesystem:rename-file-overwriting-target has
> bitrotten on the latest CLISP. Any volunteer to fix that in a
> backward-compatible way? I'll pass.
>
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:58 PM Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> 
> wrote:
>>
>> The latest tweak was followed by a Jenkins (linux) test failure for 
>> clisp on test-encodings.script, with a segmentation fault.
>>
>> I cannot reliably replicate this, and I don't see any reason to 
>> assume that this is ASDF's fault, rather than clisp's.
>>
>> I'm not sure that there is anything I can do about this, but thought 
>> I would ask for suggestions:
>>
>> Test TEST-FILE-ENCODING-U8: should be UTF-8
>> ; Registering system test-file-encoding-u8
>>
>> *** - handle_fault error2 ! address = 0x55f6cc8871d0 not in 
>> [0x55db332bd000,0x55db336926d8) !
>> SIGSEGV cannot be cured. Fault address = 0x55f6cc8871d0.
>> GC count: 203
>> Space collected by GC: 304757408
>> Run time: 3 915662
>> Real time: 4 586182
>> GC time: 0 693431
>> Permanently allocated: 165368 bytes.
>> Currently in use: 8753400 bytes.
>> Free space: 1903262 bytes.
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>> Using clisp, test-encodings.script failed
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