Bug 10470

Summary:	lib64wvstreams4.6 breaks wvdial
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Rolf Pedersen <rolfpedersen>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ashashiwa, derekjenn, fundawang, jani.valimaa, mackowiakp, shikamaru, sysadmin-bugs, tmb
Version:	3	Keywords:	Junior_job, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	mga3-64-ok mga3-32-ok
Source RPM:	wvstreams-4.6.1-7.mga3.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	modified spec file

Description Rolf Pedersen 2013-06-10 03:52:12 CEST

wvdial crashes with "wvdial: utils/wvtask.cc:304: static int WvTaskMan::yield(int): Assertion `*current_task->stack_magic == 0x123678' failed.
Aborted" or similar.

Forum topic: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5123&p=36360#p36360

Inspirational Red Hat bug comment: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812651#c14

What I did was install wvstreams-4.6.1-7.mga3.src.rpm and make a stab in the dark edit to the spec file to read as follows:

74  CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIC -fpermissive -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-dce -fno-optimize-sibling-calls" CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIC -fpermissive -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-dce -fno-optimize-sibling-calls" %configure2_5x

All I did was add the flags reported in comment 14 of the Red Hat bug to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.  I removed nothing.

Then, I did 

rpmbuild -bb SPECS/wvstreams.spec

and installed the resultant 

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  586424 Jun  8 14:15 lib64wvstreams4.6-4.6.1-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm

after removing Mageia's package.  After that, I installed wvdial and it works.  Another success story is at the linked forum topic.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Manuel Hiebel 2013-06-11 21:10:11 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Junior_job
CC: (none) => fundawang, shikamaru

Comment 1 Rolf Pedersen 2013-06-11 22:47:35 CEST

Created attachment 4132 [details]
modified spec file

In case it's useful, the modified spec file is attached.

Comment 2 jb butet 2013-06-20 10:26:02 CEST

confirm on i586 platform

CC: (none) => ashashiwa
Hardware: x86_64 => All

Comment 3 Derek Jennings 2013-06-25 00:50:44 CEST

Looks good Rolf.  Your spec file is consistent with fedoras update apart from Fedora only appying the changes to CXXOPTS

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libwvstreams.git/commit/?h=f17

Did you try it without the changes to CFLAGS ?

CC: (none) => derekjenn, jani.valimaa
Assignee: bugsquad => derekjenn

Comment 4 Rolf Pedersen 2013-06-25 00:56:44 CEST

No, just a stab in the dark and happy that it works, here.  Building rpms is not my bailiwick. ;)

Comment 5 Derek Jennings 2013-06-27 22:55:58 CEST

 libwvstreams4.6-4.6.1-8.mga4 is now in Cauldron.  Could someone try it out please and report if it is OK?

It should install OK on mageia 3.

I cannot test it myself.

If it works I will roll it out for mga3 as an update.

Derek Jennings 2013-06-30 13:56:11 CEST

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 6 Derek Jennings 2013-07-03 20:36:21 CEST

SRPM   wvstreams-4.6.1-7.1.mga3.src.rpm
RPMS   lib64wvstreams4.6-4.6.1-7.1.mga3.x86_64.rpm
       uniconf-4.6.1-7.1.mga3.x86_64.rpm
       libwvstreams4.6-4.6.1-7.1.mga3.i586.rpm
       uniconf-4.6.1-7.1.mga3.i586.rpm

are in mga3 core/updates_testing

Advisory
-------
This is a bugfix update to wvstreams to fix a bug that caused an error message when connecting to a ppp dial connection.

Required Hardware
-----------------
USB 3G dongle or dial up modem


Note for QA
----------
Could those who have experienced this problem please help QA validate this update. There may not be many QA testers with the required hardware.

Test Procedure
--------------
Connect to a 3G service or dial up modem service using wvdial on the command line, and observe the output.

 A good guide is in the first post on the forum at
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5123&p=36360#p36360

Sorry I do not have the required hardware myself so cannot write a detailed test procedure.

Assignee: derekjenn => qa-bugs

Comment 7 Piotr Mackowiak 2013-07-04 08:36:36 CEST

I user corrected WVDIAL on my HP laptop + Huawei E173 GSM usb modem. Confirm. From my point of view, the bug is corrected.

CC: (none) => mackowiakp

Comment 8 claire robinson 2013-07-04 09:06:38 CEST

Thanks Piotr

Can you say which installation you tested with please, i586 or x86_64

Comment 9 Piotr Mackowiak 2013-07-04 09:53:42 CEST

x86_64 only + necessary modification of udev.rules for my personal needs.

And sorry for mistyping in my first post. Should be "I use" not "I user".

Comment 10 claire robinson 2013-07-04 10:06:52 CEST

Thankyou Piotr

jb butet, I notice you use i586. Could you please test the update candidate in Core Updates Testing cures the problem for you too. We can validate the update candidate then and get it pushed as a proper update. Thanks!

Whiteboard: (none) => mga3-64-ok

Comment 11 Piotr Mackowiak 2013-07-04 10:22:42 CEST

I use i586 but it is my home media centre, NAS, ZoneMinder, Webdav server etc. So practically no way to test/turn-off/reboot this computer. It could be dangerous for my life (wife, children etc). Even I have no free USB port on it,

But I use practically everyday new version of wvdial since it was available thanks to discussion on M3 forum.

Comment 12 claire robinson 2013-07-15 18:40:58 CEST

Tested mga3 32 only so far as it updates cleanly, wvdial will not start without a modem. Piotr thanks for your testing.

Validating. Advisory from comment 6 uploaded.

Could sysadmin please push from core/updates_testing to core/updates.

Thanks!

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: mga3-64-ok => mga3-64-ok mga3-32-ok
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 13 Thomas Backlund 2013-07-16 10:39:07 CEST

Update pushed:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2013-0059.html

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED