Bug#820416: kodi: FTBFS in testing (Segmentation fault)

[Santiago Vila]

tags 820416 - unreproducible
found 820416 16.1~rc2+dfsg1-1
thanks

I can reproduce it *every* time on several machines, so the problem is
indeed real and not imagined.

The program that segfaults is "kodi-test". Here is a backtrace:

#0  __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<XbmcThreads::CEventGroup**, std::vector<XbmcThreads::CEventGroup*, std::allocator<XbmcThreads::CEventGroup*> > >::__normal_iterator (__i=@0x201: <error reading variable>, this=<optimized out>)
    at /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_iterator.h:741
#1  std::vector<XbmcThreads::CEventGroup*, std::allocator<XbmcThreads::CEventGroup*> >::begin (this=0x201)
    at /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_vector.h:548
#2  CEvent::Set (this=this at entry=0x7ffdea4caca0) at Event.cpp:78
#3  0x00000000014b2d09 in CThread::staticThread (data=0x7ffdea4cabd0) at Thread.cpp:137
#4  0x00007f871f914454 in start_thread (arg=0x7f86f65b1700) at pthread_create.c:334
#5  0x00007f8716dddecd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:109


If you still believe there is not a problem anywhere, I can give you
access to a virtual machine where the problem may be reproduced easily
(please contact me privately for this).


I'm testing on a machine having 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap.

According to my tests, kodi needs an average of 300 MB and a maximum
of 1200 MB to build. If the tests suddenly need more than 8 GB of
virtual memory (version 16.0+dfsg1-1 worked ok), I would say this is
disproportionate and a big step backwards.

Thanks.