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

[Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>]

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?

-- 
Jérôme Marant