Re: HPPA and Squeeze

["John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>]

> It's very easy to tell there is nothing wrong when you don't have to
> deal with unreliable build daemons, endless discussions but no visible
> progress (except for java support) and complaints from DSA, package
> maintainers and others.

The problem with the build daemons may be a buggy version of nscd.
It causes random problems with uid/gid lookups.  This is just a guess
based on this report:
http://www.nabble.com/Boost-build-failure-on-hppa-td23496708.html

I had problems with sshd and dpkg on my c3750 until I disabled nscd.
It's now running 2.6.30.  It has done a full build and check of GCC
several times, and appears to be stable with this kernel.  This is
with a UP kernel.

With SMP kernels, there's still a problem with random segementation
faults.  These cause application core dumps and are normally logged
in /var/log/debug.  The frequency of these problems vary with kernel
version.

I believe that it should be possible to setup a reliable hppa build
server running a UP kernel.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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