macports-base 2.10.5: port install/upgrade terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

[nasyxx (Nasy)]

I'm not sure what's wrong here. I'm getting the following situation after a recent update.

> sudo port selfupdate
--->  Checking for newer releases of MacPorts
MacPorts base version 2.10.5 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.10.5 available.
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
--->  Updating the ports tree

The ports tree has been updated.

16 ports are outdated. Run 'port outdated' for details.
To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated

> sudo port upgrade outdated
--->  Computing dependencies for openssl3
--->  Fetching archive for openssl3
--->  Attempting to fetch openssl3-3.4.1_0+rfc3779.darwin_24.arm64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/openssl3
fish: Job 1, 'sudo port upgrade outdated' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

I tried recompiling the MacPorts-base from the git source, but that didn't help. Do you have any tips on what's going wrong?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Sounds like a crash occurred. If so, macOS should have recorded a crash log in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/. Could you attach it?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Or potentially /Library/Logs rather than ~/Library/Logs since it was running as root.

[nasyxx (Nasy)]

Replying to ryandesign:

Sounds like a crash occurred. If so, macOS should have recorded a crash log in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/. Could you attach it?

Thanks! I found sudo crash logs in ~/Library/Logs/D/, but I'm still at a loss.

I tried rebuilding macports from the master branch, and encountered the this problem:

...
Library:  callback.dylib
  (tcl 8.6)
  Stubs:
    critcl-3.3.1/critcl_c/tcl8.6/tclDecls.h:
      (tclStubsPtr     =>  const TclStubs *tclStubsPtr;)
    critcl-3.3.1/critcl_c/tcl8.6/tclPlatDecls.h:
      (tclPlatStubsPtr =>  const TclPlatStubs *tclPlatStubsPtr;)

Package Placed Into: /Users/Nasy/src/macports-base/vendor/vendor-destroot/Users/Nasy/.macports/libexec/macports/lib/tmp/callback
Platform: macosx-aarch64, macosx-arm, macosx-arm64 15.0 and later
Headers Placed Into: /Users/Nasy/src/macports-base/vendor/vendor-destroot/Users/Nasy/.macports/libexec/macports/lib/tmp/critcl_callback
Done

Installed package:      /Users/Nasy/src/macports-base/vendor/vendor-destroot/Users/Nasy/.macports/libexec/macports/lib/critcl_callback_tcl8-1.1
Installed headers:      /Users/Nasy/src/macports-base/vendor/vendor-destroot/Users/Nasy/.macports/libexec/macports/include/critcl_callback
chmod: /Users/Nasy/src/macports-base/vendor/vendor-destroot/opt/local/libexec/macports/lib/critcl*: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [.stamp-critcl] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1

Now, I think I've roughly guessed that the problem lies in the fact that my /opt/local is actually a soft link to ~/.macports. It's likely that there's an issue with prefixes, where some parts are expanding the soft link to ~/.macports, while others are still retaining /opt/local.

Maybe later, I should try not to soft link the whole macports but just handle the few confs.

And for now, I install a released version from the pkg.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Can you share the crash log? A segfault is something we would want to fix regardless of whether it's triggered by an unusual configuration.