rustc(4556,0x7fffcca583c0) malloc: *** malloc_zone_unregister() failed for 0x7fffcca4f548 on OSX 10.12 beta 2

[glandium]

Heads up: Running the rust compiler on OSX 10.12 beta 2 leads to the following error message:

rustc(4556,0x7fffcca583c0) malloc: *** malloc_zone_unregister() failed for 0x7fffcca4f548

Then the process gets stuck.

This roots from the malloc zone registration code in jemalloc 3, which is shared with Firefox's replace-malloc and causes the same issue on Firefox (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284677)

Filed jemalloc issue: jemalloc/jemalloc#420

[brson]

Thanks for the report! This is scheduled for release Thursday. @glandium is 10.12 beta 2 compatible with stable and/or nightly?

[brson]

Since this is an unreleased version of OS X, and the final release isn't scheduled until fall, I think it's not a pressing issue, but we should solve it for 1.11.

[brson]

Nominating because this is a high priority issue someone should investigate.

[jansegre]

As a data point, I don't experience this issue on nightly (9f1ffdd 2016-07-11), but I do on stable. I'm on macOS 10.12 Beta (16A238m).

[tzakharko]

I am still experiencing this issue when trying to build rust on OS X. Rustc just enters a (seemingly) infinite loop with a comparable error message. Note: this also happens if I disable jemalloc via the --disable-jemalloc option to configure. This is under Sierra Dev build 6 (16A294a), Rust 413ada3

[e-oz]

@tzakharko can't reproduce.
Beta 12 installed successfully and working fine on Sierra 10.12 Beta (16A294a).

[tzakharko]

@e-oz True, Beta 12 is building and working correctly. However, the current master does not. I do not know whether its a regression or not, as I have no idea about how Rust repo is organised.

[ghost]

Hey, just wanted to know what's the status on this? jemalloc has fixed this on their end, by PR jemalloc/jemalloc#427. Is there an update yet for this?

[zeusdeux]

This is still broken on macOS Sierra version 10.12 (16A323).

I tried to upgrade my local rust installation using homebrew (brew update && brew upgrade rust) and that lead to the build hanging on make

Output reported by homebrew:

==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.11.0 --enable-clang --release-channel=stable
==> make

[tzakharko]

@zeusdeux Installing with --HEAD works

[cielavenir]

However currently we have to kill docdir stuff from install.mk.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cielavenir/homebrew-ciel/master/patch/rust.patch

[keeganstothert]

came issue on official release of high sierra. rustc errors (with above error) and cargo just hangs.

[peterbe]

Still a thing apparently. I'm on macOS 11.6.1 and I had (long ago) installed rust with brew. I'm pretty sure it's the brew upgrade here. I ran brew upgrade rust
Before i had:

▶ rustc --version
rustc 1.56.0

The upgrade looked like this:

I've lost it now but I got the this same error (OT of this issue) when running rustc --version.

Anyway, think what happened was that I had started a terminal BEFORE the upgrade. Creating a fresh new terminal now "solves" it and all is well:

▶ rustc --version
rustc 1.56.1

So basically, if anybody else sees this: create a new terminal and see if that makes the error go away.