[Qemu-devel] [Bug 739785] Re: qemu-i386 user mode on ARMv5 host fails (bash: fork: Invalid argument)

[Peter Maydell]

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> So this is a compiler or system header error?
>
> Anybody examined the differences in code generated with native compiler and 
> crosscompiler?

...this comment doesn't make much sense to me -- did you add it to the
wrong bug report by mistake? i386 user mode's issues are not related to
any cross-vs-native compilation issue or to system header mismatches. It
is straightforwardly missing functionality in QEMU that causes various
effects which manifest differently depending on what exactly the target
binary is doing and how it was compiled (eg which target i386 libc).

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Title:
  qemu-i386 user mode on ARMv5 host fails (bash: fork: Invalid argument)

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Good time of day everybody,

  I have been trying to make usermode qemu on ARM with plugapps
  (archlinux) with archlinux i386 chroot to work.

  1. I installed arch linux in a virtuabox and created a chroot for it with 
mkarchroot. Transferred it to my pogo plug into /i386/
  2. I comiled qemu-i386 static and put it into /i386/usr/bin/
  ./configure --static --disable-blobs --disable-system 
--target-list=i386-linux-user
  make

  3. I also compiled linux kernel 2.6.38 with CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y and 
installed it.
  uname -a
  Linux Plugbox 2.6.38 #4 PREEMPT Fri Mar 18 22:19:10 CDT 2011 armv5tel 
Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board GNU/Linux

  4. Added the following options into /etc/rc.local
  /sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc
  /bin/mount binfmt_misc -t binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
  echo 
':qemu-i386:M::\x7fELF\x01\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03\x00:\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xfe\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfb\xff\xff\xff:/usr/bin/qemu-i386:'
 >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

  5. Also copied ld-linux.so.3 (actually ld-2.13.so because ld-
  linux.so.3 is a link to that file) from /lib/ to /i386/lib/

  6.Now i chroot into /i386 and I get this:
  address@hidden i386]# chroot .
  [II aI hnve ao address@hidden /]# pacman -Suy
  bash: fork: Invalid argument

  7.I also downloaded linux-user-test-0.3 from qemu website and ran the test:
  address@hidden linux-user-test-0.3]# make
  ./qemu-linux-user.sh
  [qemu-i386]
  ../qemu-0.14.0/i386-linux-user/qemu-i386 -L ./gnemul/qemu-i386 i386/ls -l 
dummyfile
  BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c: 210: _dl_check_map_versions: 
Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed!
  make: *** [test] Error 127

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