ARM apps does not work on Odroids

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[B@P] Daniel
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1 Apr 2017 17:47:25 UTC
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    Hi,

    Linux ARM apps does not work on Odroids. I tried to run them on Odroid XU4 (32-bit) and CU2 (64-bit) and it crashed on both of them with following error. Looks that you must link app with glibc statically.

    ../../projects/albert.phys.uwm.edu/einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.42_arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf__NEON: relocation error: ../../projects/albert.phys.uwm.edu/einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.42_arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf__NEON: symbol h_errno, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

    Here are links to two example failed WUs:

    https://albertathome.org/pl/task/2286025

    https://albertathome.org/pl/task/2239251

    Additionally I noticed that you sent non-NEON app to CU2. AARCH64 CPUs also have NEON by default, but does not advertise it. Its NEON instructions also supports 128-bit registers (ARM have 64-bit NEON registers). Additionally it has more generic purpose registers than ARM, so 32-bit app recompiled in 64-bit mode may work faster. Please prepare dedicated AARCH64 app too.

    Christian Beer
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    The last time I checked the

    5 Apr 2017 17:00:51 UTC
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      The last time I checked the Odroid C2 was running fine with the stock app and so did the XU4. glibc can not be linked statically but we build the apps on very old systems with an old version of glibc so that the apps are running on different versions of Linux. What distribution are you using on those systems?

      The problem with Neon (simd) was fixed on Eisntein but not on Albert since it is only the test project. There is also a thread on Einstein where another volunteer build a customized 64bit ARM version with a better runtime. But nobody on the project has time to incorporate the changes and build an official version.

      ~~~ Einstein@Home Project Administrator~~~

      [B@P] Daniel
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      Thanks for answer. In the

      8 Apr 2017 11:45:18 UTC
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        Thanks for answer. In the meantime I tried to run apps from Einstein@Home and they also crash. Looks that new glibc version currently installed on Odroids dropped support for some private symbol, which presumably became deprecated long time ago.

        Here are system details:

        Odroid XU4:

        odroid@odroid-linux-1:~$ uname -a
Linux odroid-linux-1 3.10.104-126 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 29 22:24:16 UTC 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux</p>

<p>odroid@odroid-linux-1:~$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial</p>

<p>odroid@odroid-linux-1:~/tn-grid$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version
Version: 2.23-0ubuntu7

        Odroid CU2:

        odroid@odroid64:~$ uname -a
Linux odroid64 3.14.79-103 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 13 07:06:12 BRST 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux</p>

<p>odroid@odroid64:~$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial</p>

<p>odroid@odroid64:~$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version
Version: 2.23-0ubuntu5

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