Hrev57661/57662 breaks Falkon?

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I’ve just updated to hrev57662 from hrev57660, and Falkon now crashes immediately on launch for me with a “General System Error”. I tried an uninstall / reinstall via HaikuDepot, and same thing.

So, if you need Falkon, maybe don’t update just yet! (Other apps all seem fine so far.)

Falkon is crashing on a call to strchr, so maybe the patches have just revealed a bug in Falkon? (I like patches that make memory bugs more obvious!) I’ve posted a snippet of the debug below.

I’m sure this is the wrong place to report this - should I report this in HaikuPorts, or does it go elsewhere because it seems to only be visible in either hrev57661 or hrev57662 (I’m not sure which?)

Debug information for team /boot/system/apps/Falkon/Falkon (3420):
CPU(s): 8x Intel Core™ i7-8550U
Memory: 15.76 GiB total, 669.07 MiB used
Haiku revision: hrev57662 Mar 23 2024 06:24:52 (x86_64)

Active Threads:
	thread 3421: team 3420 debug task 
	thread 3420: Falkon (main)
		state: Exception (Segment violation)

		Frame		IP			Function Name
		-----------------------------------------------
		0x7fe33bfc34b0	0xfffdc56910	strchr + 0 
			Disassembly:
				strchr:
				0x000000fffdc56910:           0fb607  movzx (%rdi), %eax <--

			Frame memory:
				[0x7fe33bfc34a8]  ........   e1 10 c5 fd ff 00 00 00
		0x7fe33bfc3910	0xfffdc510dc	open_executable + 0x8c 
		0x7fe33bfc4e20	0xfffdc4c13a	load_image(char const*, image_type, char const*, char const*, char const*, image_t**) + 0xda 
		0x7fe33bfc4e90	0xfffdc4a0e9	load_immediate_dependencies(image_t*, bool) + 0x169 
		0x7fe33bfc4f20	0xfffdc4a5f1	load_program + 0x91 
		0x7fe33bfc4f50	0xfffdc51bee	runtime_loader + 0xee 
		00000000	0x7f96f0079258	commpage_thread_exit + 0 

Loaded Images:
	ID		Text Base	Text End	Data Base	Data End	Type	Name
	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	12487	0xfffdc42000	0xfffdc5f000	0xfffdc5f000	0xfffdc60000	lib    	/boot/system/runtime_loader
	12488	0x1ef88235000	0x1ef88239000	0x1ef88239000	0x1ef8823a000	app    	/boot/system/apps/Falkon/Falkon
	12486	0x7f96f0079000	0x7f96f0081000	0x00000000	0x00000000	system 	commpage
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Well, Falkon is part of Haikuports packages, you know the place where you have to report this one.
Thanks for the head up anyway.

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Thanks for reporting, I saw the issue is created also at the bugtracker so it can be tracked better, one more reason for “me” to stay on R1B4. :slight_smile:

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Ah, indeed, ticket #18858.
Yes, that’s a good illustration of reasons why betas are recommended for “normal” users.

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It looks to me a tiny fix in some ELF code which is causing a segfault when loading binaries.

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Even for me (trying to make sure package build localy will also build on the buildmasters) :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the warning!

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If you get stuck, waddlesplash just mentioned on Mastodon an easy way to revert to an earlier Haiku revision if you have to. Replace the {date} part as required:

pkgman install /system/packages/administrative/{date}/*.hpkg

You’ll need to look in the administrative folder at all the “state_” sub folders to find which state you want to revert to. In my case, there was one with lots of files with “hrev57659” in the name, those are the ones I reinstalled. Falkon now works again for me by rolling back to hrev57659.

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Meanwhile in hrev57664 I fixed the problem, so the next nightly build will not have these issues.

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