Update Ubuntu 14.04 with full Valgrind LE support.

[bugproxy]

Problem Description

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Valgrind in Ubuntu 14.04 only has the needed bit to compile. It is not functional and crashes when used.

The Ubuntu 14.04 includes the Valgrind tool using a snap shot of the Valgrind SVN repository from April 11, 2014. The snap shot is the Valgrind 3.9 release and an IBM patch allow the Valgrind tool to compile for PPC64 little endian. However, the needed functional changes did not go into the Valgrind SVN repository until early August 2014. The latest Valgrind release came out in early September 2014.

We request that the next incremental release of Ubuntu 14.04 move to the Valgrind 3.10 release with the full PPC64 little endian support.

---uname output---

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Machine Type = Power 8 LE

Steps to Reproduce

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1) valgrind - to invoke the tool and it crashes

Userspace tool common name: Valgrind

The userspace tool has the following bit modes: 64-bit

Userspace tool obtained from project website: http://valgrind.org/

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[bugproxy (bugproxy)]

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2015-07-14 21:12 EDT-------
On at 14.04.2 LTS install;

local experimentation has confirmed that valgrind segfaults when built out of the tools. (apt-get -b source valgrind)

But does seem to work OK when built directly from those same sources. Thus i suspect a subtle build option variation somewhere in the tooling.

version for reference:
16:11:06 0 willschm@genoa:~> apt-get -b source valgrind
<...>
Skipping already downloaded file 'valgrind_3.10~20140411-0ubuntu1.dsc'
Skipping already downloaded file 'valgrind_3.10~20140411.orig.tar.gz'
Skipping already downloaded file 'valgrind_3.10~20140411-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz'

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

confirmed, and there are other ppc64el issues like bug #1377796 too. I think we should just build the package from utopic/vivid to trusty.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Is this also going to be backported to vivid,utopic before trusty?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Utopic reaches end of life next week so that release isn't really relevant.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Still no upload for Vivid yet. Need that before we backport Wily into Trusty.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

We need a test plan to validate this once it goes in. A 5MB diff is obviously unauditable, so some extra testing needs to be done to make sure bumping the version doesn't hurt anything. From IRC:

16:29 < infinity> doko: At least, a PPA test of $(reverse-depends -r trusty -b src:valgrind) should be done, and we also need some what to know that $(reverse-depends -r trusty src:valgrind) don't break.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

built all reverse build dependencies of valgrind in the ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa PPA:

summary: everything builds fine in main, and some issues in universe are unrelated to the valgrind upload. Please note that I will remove the packages from the PPA once the SRU is accepted.

abiword
alleyoop
digikam
diod
gsasl
gss
hud
indicator-network
indicator-network-prompt
jq
libdbusmenu
libdrm
libtest-valgrind-perl
libusermetrics
qpid-cpp
shishi
unity-voice
valkyrie
wine1.6
xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-utopic
xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-vivid
        all ok

mir
        ftbfs on arm64 in trusty as well
mpich
        TODO: ftbfs on armhf (universe), however openmpi is the default
pypy
        ftbfs on amd64 i386, unrelated, filed SRU LP: #1499957.
rhmessaging
        missing b-d qpid-tools, universe, open issue
simgrid
        ftbfs on ppc64el (java archdir), no b-d on valgrind on ppc64el
starpu
        ftbfs on arm64 and ppc64el in trusty as well
swi-prolog
        ftbfs on ppc64el (java archdir)
xorg-gtest
        ftbfs with the existing valgrind as well

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted valgrind into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/valgrind/1:3.10.1-1ubuntu3~14.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted valgrind into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/valgrind/1:3.10.1-1ubuntu3~15.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[CDE Administration (cdeadmin)]

test

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Could somebody add some information describing how verification was done?

[CDE Administration (cdeadmin)]

check if this bug can be caught by bridge per IT129946 submitted by Chavez, pls ignore this comment.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package valgrind - 1:3.10.1-1ubuntu3~14.04

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valgrind (1:3.10.1-1ubuntu3~14.04) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU. Backport the 1.10 series to 14.04 for ppc64el support. LP: #1386524.
  * Also fixes segfault on ppc64el, LP: #1377796.

valgrind (1:3.10.1-1ubuntu3) wily; urgency=medium

  * Build with GCC fixing PR target/65456. LP: #1434222.
  * Fix DCACHEBSIZE and HWCAP2 issues. LP: #1428002.
  * Fix bash command completion to respect end of options argument (--).
    LP: #840467.

valgrind (1:3.10.1-1ubuntu2) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Build for glibc-2.21. LP: #1435261.

valgrind (1:3.10.1-1ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Remove valgrind-mpi package from Ubuntu and any references to it, as
      mpi-default-dev is in universe for the time being.
    - Lower over-inflated valgrind-dbg Recommends to Suggests instead.
    - Don't strip vgpreload* on ARM; this results in unusable stack traces
      without valgrind-dbg.
    - Configure with --enable-only64bit on AArch64.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:37:42 +0200

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for valgrind has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package valgrind - 1:3.10.1-1ubuntu3~15.04

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valgrind (1:3.10.1-1ubuntu3~15.04) vivid-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU. Backport the 1.10 series to 14.04 for ppc64el support. LP: #1386524.
  * Also fixes segfault on ppc64el, LP: #1377796.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Sep 2015 08:57:45 +0200