Maxima/ECL fails on Raspberry Pi 5 with Debian 13: “madvise(..., MADV_HUGEPAGE) invalid argument

[kikegall]

Describe the bug

On a Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM64) running Debian 13 (Trixie) with the Raspberry Pi–provided kernel and firmware, the computer algebra system Maxima (Debian package version 5.47.0-7 arm64) fails immediately on startup.

The error shown is: The assertion !madvise(m,p2,MADV_HUGEPAGE) on line 67 of o/msbrk.c in function msbrk failed: Invalid argument Abortado This issue does not occur when running the same version of Maxima on Debian arm64 using the official Debian kernel, so the problem appears to be specific to the Raspberry Pi kernel, which may not support the madvise(..., MADV_HUGEPAGE) call used by ECL.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

sudo apt install maxima maxima --list The assertion !madvise(m,p2,MADV_HUGEPAGE) ... Invalid argument Abortado

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 5

System

$ cat /etc/rpi-issue Raspberry Pi reference 2025-10-01 Generated using pi-gen, https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen

$ vcgencmd version 2025/05/08 15:13:17 Version: 69471177 (release) (embedded)

$ uname -a Linux pi5pixelito 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.47-1+rpt1 (2025-09-16) aarch64 GNU/Linux

maxima 5.47.0-7 arm64

Logs

maxima_strace.log raspinfo.txt

Additional context

No response

[popcornmix]

See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/7076 https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/6390