building samples dies with signal 11 in cudafe - cuda 6.5, driver 343.22.

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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After installing CUDA 6.5, most of the sample code doesn’t build. I tracked it down to cudafe dying a
very quick death:

strace /usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/cudafe
execve(“/usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/cudafe”, [“/usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/cudafe”], [/* 67 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x1a49000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bccf6f000
access(“/etc/ld.so.preload”, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bccf6e000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bccf6d000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f9bccf6e680) = 0
— SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x8} —
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This is on a Dell Latitude E6500, Fedora x86_64. Any ideas? Looks like ARCH_SET_FS doesn’t agree with something even though it returns OK.

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which fedora version? are the samples installed in /usr/local/cuda/samples? do you run make as root?

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I’ve already done all that analysis. The problem is that cudafe dies really early on - before it’s even looked at its arguments, or checked if it’s running as root, or tried to open its input. I suspect the root problem here is that something in Fedora Rawhide and/or the kernel has changed, and I’m more than happy to chase the regression to the upstream culprit, but cudafe is a stripped binary with some modifications to the ELF header sufficient to stop gdb from being able to open it, so the usual debugging method of just parking a breakpoint on the arch_prctl() call and then ‘stepi’ until it dies won’t work.

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If you use Fedora 20 (a qualified distro for CUDA 6.5) I think things will work just fine for you.

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Yeah, except the goal here is to track down what caused the regression, because something in Fedora or the kernel changed. Oh well… looks like ‘git bisect’ time again.

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Gaah. Finally found it, after it died running under a Fedora 20 kernel as well.

rpm -V cuda-core-6-5
…5… /usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/cudafe
…5… /usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/cudafe++
…5… /usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/cuobjdump
…5… /usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/fatbinary
…5… /usr/local/cuda-6.5/bin/ptxas
…5… /usr/local/cuda-6.5/nvvm/lib64/libnvvm.so.2.0.0

Something corrupted the binaries. ‘yum reinstall cuda-core-6-5’ fixed it, and everything seems to be working. Now to figure out what screwed the binaries up…