Re: dpkg/lchown and 2.0.3[0-4] kernels
On Monday, December 7 1998, at 22:10:12, Nikhil Nair wrote:
:
: So, rather than upgrade to 2.0.35, what can I do to get dpkg going again?
: I tried installing lchown.so (which Nikita Schmidt posted on Aug 30) but
: then tar failed to chmod anything ... maybe incompatible syscall numbers?
You can just recompile your 2.0.3[0-4] kernel with the attached
patch, and the last dpkg will work ok with the last libc.
It does for me :)
Regards,
--
Roberto Lumbreras
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--- linux-2.0.33/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c.orig Sun Dec 7 05:38:36 1997
+++ linux-2.0.33/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c Wed Nov 25 22:46:52 1998
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@
{
if (regs.r0 != 112 && regs.r0 < 300)
printk("<sc %ld(%lx,%lx,%lx)>", regs.r0, a0, a1, a2);
- return -1;
+ return -ENOSYS;
}
extern asmlinkage void entMM(void);
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