Re: Cause of g-i crashing on AMD64 at VT switch found

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Le vendredi 24 novembre 2006 15:01, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit :
>
> > Hi
> >
> > i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to run 
> > the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces this log
> >
> > libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
> > (!) [ 5905:    0.000] --> Caught signal 6 (unknown origin) <--
> > libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
> > Aborted
> >
> > adding this library (and full libc) to the chroot prevents the crash.
> >
> > Try this by yourself
> >
> > - boot an amd64 image with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
> > - proceed with installation process until full libc6 is unpacked
> > - wget libgcc_s.so.1 into the installer
> > - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
> > - debian-installer
> >
> > now you should be able to chvt without crashing anymore.
>
>
> Thanks for finding this bug!
>
> I didn't know that you could change the frontend on the fly.
> So you interrupted it right after installing the libc and
> restarted after changing the frontend?

I think this starts two main-menu instances in parallel, but one could 
set global the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable and then kill mainmenu (wrapped) 
to see if it's possible having one single main-menu instance running.

cheers and thanks for all your efforts in debugging this :)

Attilio