From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 49847@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49847: OpenGL applications may fail to run on foreign distributions
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 23:30:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsvonbir.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0l25t7x.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:33:06 -0400")
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> I recently discovered that on systems that used another implementation
> of OpenGL than those provided by Mesa (such as systems using the
> proprietary nvidia or AMD drivers), the OpenGL application would crash,
> sometimes even requiring a reboot of the host system to recover!
Ouch. Isn’t it similar to the problem with libc’s Name Service Switch
(info "(guix) Application Setup"):
If the nscd is not running, then [applications] perform the name
lookup by themselves, by loading the name lookup services into their
own address space and running it. These name lookup services—the
‘libnss_*.so’ files—are ‘dlopen’’d, but they may come from the host
system’s C library, rather than from the C library the application is
linked against (the C library coming from Guix).
And this is where the problem is: if your application is linked
against Guix’s C library (say, glibc 2.24) and tries to load NSS plugins
from another C library (say, ‘libnss_mdns.so’ for glibc 2.22), it will
likely crash or have its name lookups fail unexpectedly.
That is, Mesa can dlopen “drivers” (shared libs), and if these drivers
come from a foreign distro, the application is likely to crash sooner or
later.
If that’s what happens, we’d have to arrange so that our Mesa doesn’t
dlopen non-Guix shared libs.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-04 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-03 17:33 bug#49847: OpenGL applications may fail to run on foreign distributions Maxim Cournoyer
2021-08-03 21:13 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-08-08 3:57 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-08-04 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-08-05 2:21 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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