trickle 64-bit does not work with 32-bit binaries

[Ken Sharp]

Binary package hint: trickle

I have been trying to find out if trickle built for amd64 actually works at all with 32-bit executables using trickle -v, but it doesn't actually tell me anything, just this:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/trickle/trickle-overload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

trickle is a little more forthcoming with 64-bit executables.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: trickle 1.07-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 19 03:04:36 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: trickle

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Tried recompiling for i686 but I had to link to /usr/include/bsd/sys and then it threw up all kinds of errors. I gave up in the end.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

It doesn't do anything to limit bandwidth, likely due to this 32/64 incompatibility.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Can't rebuild on Oneiric. I have no idea why it can't find this header.

ccache gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/tmp/trickle-1.07 -Wall -Icompat -g -O2 -c /tmp/trickle-1.07/trickled.c
/tmp/trickle-1.07/trickled.c:22:22: fatal error: sys/tree.h: No such file or directory

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

I built trickle32 in a chroot with instructions from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/trickle/+bug/1018657

Then symlinked to the chroot's libbsd.so.0 allowing trickle32 to run in Precise 64-bit (and co-exist with trickle64).

I then tried running Slingplayer 1.5 via Wine but it had no effect on the amount of bandwidth used by the app.
$/opt/trickle32/bin/trickle -d 100 -u 1024 wine-1.5.6 ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Sling\ Media/SlingPlayer/SlingPlayer.exe
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11492

There doesn't seem to be an upstream bug tracker to send this to but the man page suggest marius at monkey dot org.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

$ ldd /opt/trickle32/bin/trickle
 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf76e3000)
 libbsd.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0xf76b1000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf750c000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf76e4000)

$ ldd /usr/bin/trickle
 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff8b9c0000)
 libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007fb73434a000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb733f8d000)
 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb73457b000)

When trying to run trickle32:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/trickle32/lib/trickle/trickle-overload.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

A static build fails.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

I cannot see how to workaround this.

$ sudo apt-get install trickle:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libevent-extra-2.0-5 libevent-openssl-2.0-5 libevent-pthreads-2.0-5 libevent-core-2.0-5
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libbsd0:i386 libevent-2.0-5:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED
  libevent-2.0-5 libevent-dev nfs-common transmission-cli transmission-gtk
The following NEW packages will be installed
  libbsd0:i386 libevent-2.0-5:i386 trickle:i386

$ sudo dpkg -i trickle_1.07-9build1_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package trickle:i386.
(Reading database ... 328199 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking trickle:i386 (from trickle_1.07-9build1_i386.deb) ...
(Noting disappearance of trickle, which has been completely replaced.)
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of trickle:i386:
 trickle:i386 depends on libbsd0 (>= 0.0).
 trickle:i386 depends on libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0.10-stable).
dpkg: error processing trickle:i386 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 trickle:i386

I have tried running an i386 trickle, and associated libraries, but it doesn't have any effect on the running application. (strace points ouf if any 64-bit libraries are loaded and trickle complains in the same way as above).

I have also tried cross-building but the resulting biaries are x86_64 anyway for some reason.

The only other way I can think of working around this is with a static build, but that has it's own problems.

[Karl Morrison (karl-morrison)]

Any info on this?

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Sadly no. I don't think anyone is interested. I think trickle is effectively dead.

[alexw (alexgraehl)]

Confirmed for me as well. It seems like trickle is deprecated and does not work / cannot work on modern systems. I would love to be proven wrong, however!

[alexw (alexgraehl)]

There also appears to be no ALTERNATIVE to trickle, for programs that do not natively support rate-limiting. "wondershaper" is close but limits everything over a specific network interface.

[Lenin (gagarin)]

I guess 7 years later nobody runs mixed 32/64-bit binaries anymore?