Re: Problem with r5k and dpkg

[Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:54:09PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:53:40PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:36:22PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
> > > mips@root:~{9}# dpkg --purge eterm
> > > (Reading database ... 13088 files and directories currently installed.)
> > > Removing eterm ...
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/eterm.postrm: line 6:   798 Bus error               $update
> > > dpkg: error processing eterm (--purge):
> > >  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 138
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > >  eterm
> > > 
> > > mips@root:~{13}# update-menus
> > > zsh: bus error  update-menus
> > > 
> > > Package menu is probably corrupted.
> > Can you paste your /proc/cpuinfo? I've seen this on r4600 but never on
> > r5k.
> 
> mips@root:~{43}# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu                     : MIPS
> cpu model               : R5000 V1.0
> system type             : SGI Indy
> BogoMIPS                : 179.81
> byteorder               : big endian
> unaligned accesses      : 12
> wait instruction        : yes
> microsecond timers      : yes
> extra interrupt vector  : no
> hardware watchpoint     : no
> VCED exceptions         : not available
> VCEI exceptions         : not available
Hmm...can you recompile update-menus with -g and get a stack backtrace
with gdb?  Recompiling with latest binutils might help anyway. I've seen
many bugs go away since the  2.11.90.0.24 binutils upload.
 -- Guido