Re: Strange qemu behavior on sparc64

[Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 10:08 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 8:24 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > i am using netbsd9.0/sparc64.
> >
> > When i try to run emulators/qemu from pkgsrc-2020Q1 or pkgsrc-2020Q2,
> > all components do nothing. They are also not visible with high load on
> > top.
> >
> > For example i run qemu-img or qemu-system-sparc without any
> > parameters. It should come back with a message telling me an error or
> > missing parameters i guess...but nothing happens. The terminals just
> > sits there and nothing will happen.
> >
> > ps shows:
> > root 21589  0.0  0.1 70432 6464 pts/1  I+    8:16PM 0:00.09 qemu-img
> >
> > The same happens with gdb qemu-img. After "(gdb) run" it does nothing.
> > I have to press ctrl-c to interrupt it and then i will get:

> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /usr/pkg/bin/qemu-img
> > ^C
> > Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> > 0x0000000042952cb4 in ___lwp_park60 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> > (gdb)
> >
> >
> > So the process is sleeping or parked.


I'm not sure, but the problem could be related to this:
http://gnats.netbsd.org/54310

However it directly hangs on each qemu-tool directly after you execute
it. Not a single line is printed to stdout.