[SerialICE] Experiencing a qemu segfault (SOLVED) and serialice accessibility problems

[Stefan Reinauer]

 On 8/27/10 4:34 AM, Corey Osgood wrote:
> Oh! I'm not the only one seeing qemu segfault! I don't have the patch
> available, but I've written a patch for my Zotac NM10 board with a
> Nuvoton NCT5571D super IO. I'm trying to boot the vendor BIOS. I'm
> sure that I'm using the correct clock in (48MHz) and settings, because
> I can get a serial boot console in linux with the stock BIOS, and if I
> look at serialice through minicom, I can see the console. If I start
> qemu then start the system, I will get the same message you did
> (target alife!) then something for a message about a communication
> failure (0/a). It will then hang there. If I reboot it (turn it off
> and back on) qemu segfaults.

Make sure minicom is ended again before you start qemu. Otherwise qemu
might/will not see the answers to its requests.

> I also had some problems trying to compile QEMU on 64-bit, oddly I
> *did* get beyond those initial 2 lines (with the same cable), but it
> would fail when trying to run the lua script. I couldn't get bitlib-25
> to compile against Ubuntu 10.04 with lua from source, so I used
> bitlib-26 at first, but it would give me an error in bit.so, trying to
> call an undefined symbol, lua_pushnumber (IIRC). I then removed the
> lua from source and installed Ubuntu's lua5.1 and liblua5.1 packages,
> got bitlib-25 to compile (with --with-lua-suffix=5.1), compiled qemu
> (after making symlinks in /usr/lib from liblua5.1.x to liblua.x), and
> it would segfault about 6 lines down (during/after trying to reserve a
> couple memory ranges). After that I got frustrated and installed
> 32-bit ubuntu.

I added a lua compilation fix for x64 and also an ubuntu specific patch
to the Qemu configure script. With those two changes I was able to
successfully compile Qemu following the instructions of
http://serialice.com/Installation.html

Stefan