Segentation Fault on RockPro64 running CentOS Linux 7 (AltArch) blocker for GNOME/KDE

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The command dmidecode produces a segmentation fault when run on CentOS Linux 7 (AltArch) on RockPro64 (version with 4 Gb RAM). This happens when trying to launch GNOME or KDE each of which install successfully but fail to launch due to a segmentation fault in dmidecode.

The CentOS distribution installed in the 64-bit ARM single board computer was provided by Project31: https://project31.github.io/pine64/

Bootable image burned to the SD Card was downloaded from: https://github.com/Project31/centos-pine64/releases

The crash is 100% reproducible on the one single board computer available for testing; therefore I am not able to confirm it is independent of the instance of the board in my possession.

The Pine64 (2 Mb version) a close relative of RockPro64 is able to run GNOME on CentOS therefore does not seem to have this problem.

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Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Available Packages Name : python-dmidecode Arch : aarch64 Version : 3.12.2 Release : 3.el7 Size : 77 k Repo : base/7/aarch64 Summary : Python module to access DMI data URL : https://github.com/nima/python-dmidecode/ License : GPLv2 Description : python-dmidecode is a python extension module that uses the : code-base of the 'dmidecode' utility, and presents the data : as python data structures or as XML data using libxml2.

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Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: Bad mode in Error handler detected, code 0xbf000000 -- SError Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: Internal error: Oops - bad mode: 0 [#1] SMP Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: af_packet xt_tcpudp ip6t_rpfilter ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 xt_conntrack ip_set nfnetlink ebtable_nat ebtable_broute bridge stp llc ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6table_security ip6table_raw iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack iptable_mangle iptable_security iptable_raw ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log snd_soc_rockchip_hdmi_dp ip_tables x_tables autofs4 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: CPU: 5 PID: 727 Comm: dmidecode Not tainted 4.4.166-rockchip64 #17 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: Hardware name: Pine64 RockPro64 (DT) Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: task: ffffffc0e9475400 task.stack: ffffffc0e941c000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: PC is at 0x7f8cc65cd0 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: LR is at 0x7f8cc65ca0 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: pc : [<0000007f8cc65cd0>] lr : [<0000007f8cc65ca0>] pstate: a0000000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: sp : 0000007fc7ebf2f0 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x29: 0000007fc7ebf2f0 x28: 0000000000000000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x27: 0000000000010000 x26: 0000007f8cbc1000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x25: 0000005575e22720 x24: 0000005575e3f000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000010000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x21: 0000007f8cbc1000 x20: 00000055ae82f010 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x19: 00000055ae82f010 x18: 0000007fc7ebf390 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x17: 0000007f8cc65be0 x16: 0000005575e3fe40 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x15: 0000000000005788 x14: 0000007f8cbe2a94 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000008 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x11: 0000005575e22720 x10: 0000007f8cbe4c28 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x9 : 000000000008ab48 x8 : 00000000000000de Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x7 : 0000000000000023 x6 : 000000000000007c Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x5 : 00000000000f0000 x4 : 0000000000000000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000002000 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: x1 : 0000007f8cbc1000 x0 : 00000055ae82f008 Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: Process dmidecode (pid: 727, stack limit = 0xffffffc0e941c000) Jan 18 08:50:36 localhost kernel: ---[ end trace 5795f018d82a6a48 ]---