Bug#241133: unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 23 Mar 2004
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-sparc/current/images/cdrom-mini.iso
uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown
Date: 30 Mar 2004 20:57 GMT
Method: CD-rom mini image, was going to use network afterwards but didn't get
that far...
Machine: Sun SPARCstation 20
Processor: sparc
Memory: 122420k available (1824k kernel code, 300k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
[f0000000,0af68000]
Root Device: SCSI ESP;
esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCYC=25000 CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
(but really not applicable)
Root Size/partition table: Not Applicable
Output of lspci: Not applicable
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
After loading the kernel the system hangs complaining about an unimplemented
system call.
The fllowing is the last bit of output:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1242k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
Setting up filesystem, please wait ...
busybox[8]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[9]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[11]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[12]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
init[10]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[13]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Thats about it, now it just hangs.
Going to console 2 (Alt-F2) however still gives me the following:
Please press Enter to activate this console.
BusyBox v1.00-pre8 (Debian 20040306-1) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
~ #
This still seems to work, I did the uname -a here etc.
Going back to the first console doesn't work anymore though.
The last thing I could think of which might be helpful is a `ps':
1 root 472 S init
2 root SW [keventd]
3 root SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 root SW [kswapd]
5 root SW [bdflush]
6 root SW [kupdateed]
42 root 464 S /sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /var/log/syslog
45 root 464 S /sbin/klogd -c 2
55 root 488 S /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer
56 root 328 S /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages
57 root 332 S /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog
58 root 528 S /bin/sh
151 root 1736 S /usr/bin/bterm -f /unifont.bfg -l C.UTF-8 /sbin/di-main-menu
152 root 3084 S /usr/share/debconf/frontend -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu
153 root 536 S /usr/bin/main-menu
159 root 432 S udpkg --configure languagechooser
160 root 440 S /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/languagechooser.postinst configure
169 root 488 S /bin/sh -e /usr/bi/languagechooser
185 root 568 R ps -ef
Also from /var/log/syslog (only the warnings, i'm getting lazy):
user.warn main-menu[153]: WARNING **: package libc6 doesn't exist
user.warn main-menu[153]: WARNING **: package libiw27 doesn't exist
user.warn main-menu[153: WARNING **: package libc-udeb doesn't exist
user.warn main-menu[153]: WARNING **: Unable to set title for cdebconf-udeb.
user.debug frontend: Setting debconf/language to en
This last happens withouth me ever seeing any chooser. After this only a
message from init appears saying it started /bin/sh on /dev/vc/2
That's it, hope it helps
cheers
flub
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