[elephant-devel] Elephant/BDB problems on recent 64-bit Linux systems

[Petter Gustad]

Hi,

I'm experiencing problems when I try to run Elephant with the Berkeley
DB backend on certain recent 64-bit Gentoo systems. I've enclosed a
sample script which will download and build SBCL, Elephant, and then
run a small test.


System A: Core-2 Duo somewhat older Gentoo.
          /usr/bin/db4.7_deadlock -V
          Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (2010-08-25)
          gcc 4.1.2

System B: Core-2 Duo recent Gentoo installation
          /usr/bin/db4.7_deadlock -V
          Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (2010-11-18)
          gcc 4.4.4

System C: Atom recent Gentoo installation
          /usr/bin/db4.7_deadlock -V
          Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (2010-11-18)
          gcc 4.4.4

System D: Core-2 Quad Gentoo (somewhere between A and B)
          /usr/bin/db4.7_deadlock -V
          Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (2010-12-14)
          gcc 4.3.2


A:  OK (*** GOT KEY ("Zappa rules!") IN SECOND INVOCATION)
B:  Unhandled memory fault at #x7D0.
C:  Unhandled memory fault at #x7D0.
D:  *** GOT KEY ("Zappa rules!") IN SECOND INVOCATION

Then B gcc was downgraded to 4.1.2. The Berkeley db was then
recompiled, all .fasl files were deleted, and the result was still:

  Unhandled memory fault at #x7D0.

This occurs at:
(open-store cl-user::+ele-storage+)

I'm also getting a similar failure with Clojoure so I don't think it's
releated to SBCL.

Have anybody else experienced these kinds of problems, or have any
clues as what the problem might be?

//Petter
P.S. The script will install QuickLisp if it's not installed

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#!/bin/sh

# http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sbcl/sbcl-1.0.44-x86-64-linux-binary.tar.bz2
# http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sbcl/sbcl-1.0.44-x86-linux-binary.tar.bz2
# http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.0.44/sbcl-1.0.44-source.tar.bz2

unset SBCL_HOME
unset SBCL_SOURCE_ROOT
unset CDPATH
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE

TARGET_DIR=/tmp/ele-test-dir

mkdir -p ${TARGET_DIR}

cd ${TARGET_DIR}

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sbcl/sbcl-1.0.44-x86-64-linux-binary.tar.bz2
tar xvfj sbcl-1.0.44-x86-64-linux-binary.tar.bz2 
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.0.44/sbcl-1.0.44-source.tar.bz2
tar xvfj sbcl-1.0.44-source.tar.bz2

mkdir root
cd sbcl-1.0.44


OLD_PATH="$PATH"
PATH=${TARGET_DIR}/sbcl-1.0.44-x86-64-linux/src/runtime:$PATH
export PATH
SBCL_HOME=${TARGET_DIR}/sbcl-1.0.44-x86-64-linux/output
export SBCL_HOME


sh make.sh --prefix=${TARGET_DIR}/root

unset SBCL_HOME
INSTALL_ROOT=${TARGET_DIR}/root sh install.sh

PATH=${TARGET_DIR}/root/bin:${OLD_PATH}
export PATH

cd ${TARGET_DIR}

darcs get http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant/darcs/elephant-1.0

cat > elephant-1.0/my-config.sexp <<EOF
#+(and (or sbcl allegro openmcl lispworks) (not (or mswindows windows)) (not (or macosx darwin)))
((:compiler . :gcc)
 (:berkeley-db-version . "4.7")
 (:berkeley-db-include-dir . "/usr/include/")
 (:berkeley-db-lib-dir . "/usr/lib/")
 (:berkeley-db-lib . "/usr/lib/libdb-4.7.so")
 (:berkeley-db-deadlock . "/usr/bin/db4.7_deadlock")
 (:berkeley-db-cachesize . 20971520)
 (:berkeley-db-map-degree2 . t)
 (:clsql-lib-paths . nil)
 (:prebuilt-libraries . nil))
EOF

echo "(defconstant +ele-storage+ '(:BDB \"${TARGET_DIR}/ele-storage\"))" > store-name.lisp

mkdir ele-storage

if test ! -e $HOME/quicklisp/setup.lisp
then
    wget http://quickstart.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
    sbcl --no-userinit --no-sysinit --load quicklisp.lisp  \
	--eval '(quicklisp-quickstart:install")' \
	--eval '(sb-ext:quit)'
fi

sbcl --no-userinit --no-sysinit --load $HOME/quicklisp/setup.lisp --load store-name.lisp <<EOF
(in-package #:cl-user)
(asdf:initialize-source-registry '(:source-registry :ignore-inherited-configuration))
(ql:quickload "bordeaux-threads")
(ql:quickload "cl-base64")
(ql:quickload "uffi")
(push (make-pathname :directory '(:relative "elephant-1.0")) asdf:*central-registry*)
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :elephant)
(in-package :elephant)
(open-store cl-user::+ele-storage+)
(add-to-root "somekey" "Zappa rules!")
(when (equal (get-from-root "somekey") "Zappa rules!")
  (format t "*** GOT KEY (~s) AFTER IT WAS WRITTEN~%" (get-from-root "somekey")))
(sb-ext:quit)
EOF

sbcl --no-userinit --no-sysinit --load $HOME/quicklisp/setup.lisp --load store-name.lisp <<EOF
(in-package #:cl-user)
(asdf:initialize-source-registry '(:source-registry :ignore-inherited-configuration))
(ql:quickload "bordeaux-threads")
(ql:quickload "cl-base64")
(ql:quickload "uffi")
(push (make-pathname :directory '(:relative "elephant-1.0")) asdf:*central-registry*)
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :elephant)
(in-package :elephant)
(open-store cl-user::+ele-storage+)
(when (equal (get-from-root "somekey") "Zappa rules!")
  (format t "*** GOT KEY (~s) IN SECOND INVOCATION~%" (get-from-root "somekey")))
(sb-ext:quit)
EOF