NetBSD Problem Report #57896

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From: gson@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson)
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Subject: sysutils/memtestplus does not work
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>Number:         57896
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       sysutils/memtestplus does not work
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 31 11:05:00 +0000 2024
>Last-Modified:  Mon Feb 24 20:05:00 +0000 2025
>Originator:     Andreas Gustafsson
>Release:        NetBSD 9.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:

The ISO produced by the sysutils/memtestplus package does not work.

This is with memtestplus-5.01nb6 built on a NetBSD 9.2/amd64 system.
The ISO does boot and display the Memtest86+ 5.01 screen, but the
tests do not start, and the following messages are displayed:

  ==> Press F1 to enter Fail-Safe Mode <==
  ==> Press F2 to force Multi_Threading (SMP) <==

Pressing F1 or F2 does not successfully start the tests, either.

I'm seeing the same behavior both when booting the ISO from a CD-R on
a physical HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF and in qemu.

The ISO in https://www.memtest.org/download/v7.00/mt86plus_7.00_64.iso.zip
works.

>How-To-Repeat:

  cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/memtestplus
  make install
  qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /usr/pkg/mdec/memtestplus.iso

>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
To: gson@gson.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/57896 sysutils/memtestplus does not work
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 05:58:56 -0800 (PST)

 It's been broken for me for several years.  Someething to do with
 the gcc compiler version used to build the package.

 If you have a netbsd-6 host, you can try building there...

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From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@consolidated.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/57896 sysutils/memtestplus does not work
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:38:43 -0600 (CST)

 As of pkgsrc-2024Q4 it still does not work.  I'm using the statically-
 linked ELF binary loaded through the boot program ("/boot").  I don't
 even get any messages, just the boot program's progress indicator and
 then the machine resets.

 The last working 'memtestplus' ELF binary I have is from April 2018.
 I have a couple older ones from 2013 but they are likely also broken.

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