Segmentation fault in non-dynamically linked binaries?

Sun Jun 13 02:26:59 EDT 2010

Hello,

I am running GHC on x86_64 debian linux, and recently I have
discovered that the executables generated by my GHC segfault when the
linking step is not dynamic.
I discovered this while attempting to install haskell-src-exts, which
requires a linked version of Setup.hs when cabal builds it (and which
would fail inexplicably until I did
further investigation.)

Example:

link ~/t » cat hi.hs
main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn "hi"
link ~/t » ghc -dynamic hi.hs
link ~/t » file ./a.out
./a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
stripped
link ~/t » ldd ./a.out
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffbadff000)
	libHShaskell98-1.0.1.1-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/haskell98-1.0.1.1/libHShaskell98-1.0.1.1-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab3a4c4000)
	libHSrandom-1.0.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/random-1.0.0.2/libHSrandom-1.0.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab3a2af000)
	libHStime-1.1.4-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/time-1.1.4/libHStime-1.1.4-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab39fad000)
	libHSprocess-1.0.1.3-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/process-1.0.1.3/libHSprocess-1.0.1.3-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab39d93000)
	libHSdirectory-1.0.1.1-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/directory-1.0.1.1/libHSdirectory-1.0.1.1-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab39b77000)
	libHSunix-2.4.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/unix-2.4.0.2/libHSunix-2.4.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab398c6000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007fab396a2000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fab3949f000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fab3929b000)
	libHSold-time-1.0.0.5-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/old-time-1.0.0.5/libHSold-time-1.0.0.5-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab3903c000)
	libHSold-locale-1.0.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/old-locale-1.0.0.2/libHSold-locale-1.0.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab38e28000)
	libHSfilepath-1.1.0.4-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/filepath-1.1.0.4/libHSfilepath-1.1.0.4-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab38c07000)
	libHSarray-0.3.0.1-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/array-0.3.0.1/libHSarray-0.3.0.1-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab38992000)
	libHSbase-4.2.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/base-4.2.0.2/libHSbase-4.2.0.2-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab381f2000)
	libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.1-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/integer-gmp-0.2.0.1/libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.1-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab37fe1000)
	libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0x00007fab37da1000)
	libHSghc-prim-0.2.0.0-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/libHSghc-prim-0.2.0.0-ghc6.12.3.so
(0x00007fab37b1c000)
	libHSrts-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/libHSrts-ghc6.12.3.so (0x00007fab378ba000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fab37637000)
	libHSffi-ghc6.12.3.so =>
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/libHSffi-ghc6.12.3.so (0x00007fab3742a000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fab370c9000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fab36eac000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fab3a6cb000)
link ~/t » ./a.out
hi
link ~/t » rm ./a.out *.hi *.o
link ~/t » ghc hi.hs
link ~/t » file ./a.out
./a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
stripped
link ~/t » ldd ./a.out
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffaafff000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007fdf83d77000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fdf83b74000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fdf8396f000)
	libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0x00007fdf83730000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fdf834ae000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fdf8314c000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fdf82f30000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fdf83f9c000)
link ~/t » ./a.out
[1]    7850 segmentation fault  ./a.out
link ~/t » gdb7.0 ./a.out

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Reading symbols from /home/a/t/a.out...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/a/t/a.out
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000067b3c0 in strlen@@GLIBC_2.2.5 ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000000067b3c0 in strlen@@GLIBC_2.2.5 ()
#1  0x0000000000432dd7 in setFullProgArgv ()
#2  0x000000000043464d in hs_init ()
#3  0x000000000043478d in startupHaskell ()
#4  0x0000000000433d59 in real_main ()
#5  0x0000000000433e87 in hs_main ()
#6  0x00007ffff6fccc4d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0x0000000000402d49 in _start ()
(gdb)

What's interesting is that this occurs with all versions of GHC on my
machine, which include:
 * GHC 6.12.1
 * GHC 6.12.3
 * GHC 6.13.20100426

Executables that were statically linked with GHC before this strange
behavior started occurring appear to still work, i.e. xmonad & xmobar.
I recently did an update of my machine with aptitude, but I would not
think this would interfere with GHC.

Does anybody have any ideas?