Does renaming the file ~/.ICEAuthority affect the problem? On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Juan Navarro <oneorj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all; > I'm trying to analyze my application with the newly released Valgrind > v3.9.0; for the most part it works greatly, but there is some crash > happening when enabling the option "track-origins". This is a desktop > app compiled under GCC 4.6, which makes heavy use of Qt (4.8) + QML, > FreeType, OpenGL and several multimedia libraries, among others. > > This is my valgrind command: > $ valgrind \ > --tool=memcheck \ > --verbose \ > --error-limit=no \ > --suppressions=myapp.supp \ > --log-file=valgrind-run.log \ > --smc-check=all-non-file \ > --leak-check=no \ > --track-origins=yes \ > ./myapp > > The reason for "smc-check" is that Qt uses JIT code for its QtScript > and QML modules. "leak-check" is disables as a mean of limiting the > scope of the test, and "track-origins" is what makes the command to > fail (removing this option will correctly launch the app under > Valgrind). > > This is what I get in the stdout: > (myapp messages) > Killed > > This is what I get in valgrind-run.log: > (Lots of "--3538-- Reading syms from <file>") > (Lots of "--3538-- REDIR: <some address> <some symbol>) > ==3538== Process terminating with default action of signal 13 (SIGPIPE) > ==3538== at 0x74FECCD: ??? (syscall-template.S:82) > ==3538== by 0xD9B4D0E: ??? (in > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0) > ==3538== by 0xD9B9BD7: _IceWrite (in > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0) > ==3538== by 0xD9B9CC3: IceFlush (in > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0) > ==3538== by 0x654FB60: ??? (in > /opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4) > ==3538== by 0x6550698: ??? (in > /opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4) > ==3538== by 0x6563ADA: ??? (in > /opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4) > ==3538== by 0x6564618: ??? (in > /opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4) > ==3538== by 0xD7A9DFE: _SmcProcessMessage (in > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6.0.1) > ==3538== by 0xD9BDFD5: IceProcessMessages (in > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0) > ==3538== by 0x719CD60: QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, > QMetaObject const*, int, void**) (in > /opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.4) > ==3538== by 0x71E91DD: QSocketNotifier::activated(int) (in > /opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.4) > --3538-- Discarding syms at 0x153e95d0-0x153eafa8 in > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconv/UTF-16.so due to munmap() > > Now it is obvious that the problem comes from the Kernel emiting the > SIGPIPE signal, which afaik means that someone tried to write into a > pipe for which nobody is listening on the other end. I'd like to ask > you about some insight on what is being done when the "track-origins" > option is enabled, and if this SIGPIPE is happening due to something > done in either the Valgrind side or in my app side. > > Now, in trying the easy and ugly approach, I just tried to omit the > SIGPIPE signal, by using this call in my app's initialization: > signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); > > The results are that nothing interesting is written into the > "valgrind-run.log" file, and this is what appears in the stdout: > ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 3538, errno = 32 > > In either case, the signal is emitted just before any text is shown on > screen: the app has a splash screen showing some letters (in order to > force the preload of all font related stuff). This splash screen > appears, but without any contents, before the SIGPIPE comes into > action. May this have anything to do with the problem? > > If you read up to here: thank you very much for your time :) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers > Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore > techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most > from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Valgrind-users mailing list > Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
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