[OE-core] experiences with images based on current layer heads

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when migration of systemd to oe-core turned to unbuildable I decided
> to freeze my images and stopped further tests. Now that many issues
> were fixed and we are close to another release I built my standard
> xfce-based image based on latest layer HEADs. With this I face some
> issues which I would like to share:
>
> 1. X sessions crash with OOM. This is reproducible by opening
> google-maps with midori and changing to satellite view. In
> Xorg.0.log.old I see only
>
> | (EE)
> | (EE) Backtrace:
> | (EE)
> | (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x9
> | (EE) BUG: triggered 'if (inSignalContext)'
> | (EE) BUG: log.c:502 in LogVMessageVerb()
> | (EE) Warning: attempting to log data in a signal unsafe manner while
> in signal context.
> | Please update to check inSignalContext and/or use
> LogMessageVerbSigSafe() or ErrorFSigSafe().
> | The offending log format message is:
> |
> | Fatal server error:
> |
> | (EE)
> | (EE) Backtrace:
> | (EE)

Seems I found this one: it is caused by undefined signedness for char.
ARM uses unsigned by default but in the code we find

if (pClient->smart_priority < 0)

After final tests and sending upstream I'll send a patch here.

Andreas