Please help debug: GIMP - Illegal instruction (core dumped)

lquidfire · 2023-09-15 10:01:28

Hi all,

I haven't used GIMP in a couple of months, and now it won't start.

I have no experience whatsoever in debugging - could you please guide and help me? Thank you!

$ gimp
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

$ gdb /usr/bin/gimp
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Starting program: /usr/bin/gimp 
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Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x00007ffff4f2536b in init () from /usr/lib/babl-0.1/x86-64-v3-CIE.so
(gdb)

$ cat gdb.txt 

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff52f8480 (LWP 4522) "gimp"):
#0  0x00007ffff4f2536b in init () at /usr/lib/babl-0.1/x86-64-v3-CIE.so
#1  0x00007ffff72b1749 in babl_init () at /usr/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0
#2  0x00007ffff743dfc1 in  () at /usr/lib/libgegl-0.4.so.0
#3  0x00007ffff6e9dae9 in g_option_context_parse () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00007ffff6e9e89b in g_option_context_parse_strv () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00000001000ce555 in main ()

Searching on the internet for "Illegal instruction (code dumped)" indicated possible issues with the CPU. GIMP worked just fine in the past, but here is:

$ lscpu
Architecture:            x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes:         39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                  4
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Vendor ID:               GenuineIntel
  Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
    CPU family:          6
    Model:               94
    Thread(s) per core:  1
    Core(s) per socket:  4
    Socket(s):           1
    Stepping:            3
    CPU(s) scaling MHz:  60%
    CPU max MHz:         3600.0000
    CPU min MHz:         800.0000
    BogoMIPS:            6402.62
    Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe sysca
                         ll nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmu
                         lqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_time
                         r aes xsave f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow flexpriority
                          ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xget
                         bv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp vnmi md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities
Virtualization features: 
  Virtualization:        VT-x
Caches (sum of all):     
  L1d:                   128 KiB (4 instances)
  L1i:                   128 KiB (4 instances)
  L2:                    1 MiB (4 instances)
  L3:                    6 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:                    
  NUMA node(s):          1
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3
Vulnerabilities:         
  Gather data sampling:  Mitigation; AVX disabled, no microcode
  Itlb multihit:         KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
  L1tf:                  Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
  Mds:                   Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  Meltdown:              Mitigation; PTI
  Mmio stale data:       Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  Retbleed:              Mitigation; IBRS
  Spec rstack overflow:  Not affected
  Spec store bypass:     Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Spectre v1:            Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Spectre v2:            Mitigation; IBRS, IBPB conditional, STIBP disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected
  Srbds:                 Mitigation; Microcode
  Tsx async abort:       Mitigation; TSX disabled

Please let me know what I should do next to debug this. Thank you.

mpan · 2023-09-15 12:54:12

Hello. It seems that the error comes from babl. Guessing from the name of the library (“x86-64-v3-CIE.so”), it attempts to use x86-64 v3 instructions, but for some reason your CPU refuses to support these. Based on i5-6500 entry in Wikipedia, it should. I am confused.

The good news is that it is very unlikely to be a hardware breakage and you shouldn’t be worried about your CPU. The bad news is I do not know, what causes this behavior and why some v3 extensions (AVX for one) are missing.

Your lscpu output reports, among others, GDS mitigation by disabling AVX. Which brings me to the conclusion, that I should ask if you have microcode updates enabled. If it doesn’t help, perhaps this will at least point to the right direction.

loqs · 2023-09-15 13:00:41

Are you using the linux-hardened kernel? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/79444
Edit:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/babl/-/b … =tags#L271
Appears to be another case of only checking for hardware support without checking for OS support.

Last edited by loqs (2023-09-15 17:27:40)

lquidfire · 2023-09-16 07:51:38

loqs wrote:

Are you using the linux-hardened kernel? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/79444
Edit:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/babl/-/b … =tags#L271
Appears to be another case of only checking for hardware support without checking for OS support.

I am, indeed! Thank you for the pointer. I will read the bug tracker and see what is said there.

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#1 2023-09-15 10:01:28

Please help debug: GIMP - Illegal instruction (core dumped)

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Re: Please help debug: GIMP - Illegal instruction (core dumped)

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Re: Please help debug: GIMP - Illegal instruction (core dumped)

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Re: Please help debug: GIMP - Illegal instruction (core dumped)

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