Re: pkg/54310 (glib2-2.60.4 breaks qemu)

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/54310; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/54310 (glib2-2.60.4 breaks qemu)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 23:04:52 +0200

 On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:48:21PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 > Harold Gutch wrote:
 > > This might actually be a qemu bug that only started manifesting itself
 > > with more recent Qemu and/or glib versions.
 > > 
 > > Can you try this change to Qemu?  I've only tested it with a FreeBSD
 > > host, but that hangs at the same place and I haven't had the issue
 > > anymore since applying this diff.  However, I haven't done extensive
 > > testing with different glib versions.
 > 
 > Your patch works for me.  I first tested booting NetBSD-current/sparc64 of
 > source date 2020.10.07.19.53.32 under an unmodified pkgsrc qemu-5.1.0nb6,
 > and it failed to boot.  I then applied the patch and rebuilt qemu, and
 > it booted successfully.  Installation still fails due to PR 54810, but
 > that's to be expected.
 
 Very nice, I'm happy to hear that!
 
 
 > Can you submit the patch to the QEMU project?
 
 I reached out to Mark Cave-Ayland from QEMU yesterday but haven't
 heard back yet.  I'd like to wait a bit if he can offer some insight,
 but otherwise I can open a bug report with QEMU in a couple of days.
 
 
   Harold