Resurgence of bug #1633251: segfault during initialization of spooldb when installing gridengine-master

[Anael]

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04

gridengine-master:
  Installed: 8.1.9+dfsg-9build2
  Candidate: 8.1.9+dfsg-9build2
  Version table:
 *** 8.1.9+dfsg-9build2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

After a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04, during "apt install gridengine-master", I got the error described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gridengine/+bug/1633251 for ubuntu 16.04:
Initializing spool (/var/spool/gridengine/spooldb)
Initializing global configuration based on /usr/share/gridengine/default-configuration
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I attempted to get around it by installing the packages gridengine-common_8.1.9+dfsg-9.1_all.deb, gridengine-client_8.1.9+dfsg-9.1_amd64.deb, and gridengine-master_8.1.9+dfsg-9.1_amd64.deb taken from sid. But this requires installing libhwloc15_2.4.1~rc3+dfsg-1_amd64.deb which screws the dependency relations when upgrading.

In order to upgrade and install developments packages, I had to remove all the above-mentionned sid packages, and noticed that the focal packages gridengine-*-8.1.9+dfsg-9.1 packages then could install without error (obviously because spooldb is then initialized).

However, upon reboot, I now get from journalctl -xe:
[ 1567.989394] sge_qmaster[4491]: segfault at 100000120 ip 00007fa811d9f84c sp 00007ffd27f4d278 error 4 in libspoolb.so[7fa811cb5000+ef000]
[ 1567.989403] Code: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 53 8b 3d ed fa 05 00 e8 f0 71 f1 ff 48 89 c3 48 85 c0 74 10 48 8b 3b 5b <48> 8b 47 20 ff e0 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 bf 10 00 00 00 e8 5e 52 ff ff
...
Similar errors are logged everytime I do "service gridengine-master restart".

Reinstalling gridengine-master_8.1.9+dfsg-9.1_all.deb and sid packages, the gridengine is operational and still so after reboot.

What I expect: to be able to install gridengine within focal, without the need to also install libhwloc15_2.4.1~rc3+dfsg-1_amd64.deb which breaks the depency relations for many development packages.

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.