openvdb: OpenVDB 6.2 crashes on startup on Focal

Hi,

Per https://github.com/SteveMacenski/spatio_temporal_voxel_layer/issues/167 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951704, there’s an issue with loading OpenVDB 6.2 in Ubuntu Focal due to the dependency on jemalloc. It has been reproduced by multiple users and traced back to OpenVDB.

There’s a note that it needs to be compiled with --disable-initial-exec-tls to make things work properly

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Created 4 years ago
Comments: 21 (9 by maintainers)

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Merged - jemalloc/tbbmalloc remain optional configurations for the openvdb binaries but are no longer linked into other build artefacts (i.e. libs)

Idclip on Jul 20, 2020

Hi Steve,

Yes, we are working towards removing jemalloc as a dependency linked into the OpenVDB core shared library:

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb/pull/749

It will then be up to host applications to choose to include a concurrent allocator. This is the more correct solution and should resolve this issue without the need for including this --disable-initial-exec-tls flag. We’re aiming for this fix to go into the upcoming 7.1.0 release of OpenVDB. Hopefully the LD_PRELOAD workaround mentioned earlier in this thread is an acceptable work-around until then.

Thanks for bringing the issue to our attention, we’ll post back here when this PR has been merged.

danrbailey on Jul 8, 2020