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qemu-linaro package

  1. Bug #906922
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 906922

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 906922] Re: qemu-arm-static chroots give copious memory errors when setting up java build dependencies

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:35:44PM -0000, Loïc Minier wrote:
> In my case, I'm using qemu-arm-static from precise against an unstable Debian armel chroot and that used to work fine but now I get:
> bash: xmalloc: ../bash/variables.c:1969: cannot allocate 28 bytes (24576 bytes allocated)
> when starting bash; if I run "sh" (which is dash) I don't have the problem.

> >From sh, I can reproduce the issue:
> # bash
> bash: xmalloc: ../bash/variables.c:1969: cannot allocate 28 bytes (24576 bytes allocated)
> # QEMU_RESERVED_VA=0 bash
> (unstable-armel)root@bee:~# exit
> # QEMU_RESERVED_VA=0xf7000000 bash
> bash: xmalloc: ../bash/variables.c:2159: cannot allocate 26 bytes (24576 bytes allocated)

Yes, this is one of the known regressions being discussed upstream, from
what I saw.