On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:50:29 +1100 "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon@etrix.com.au> wrote: > I managed to boot into a linux environment from an initramfs provided by > a vendor SDK. I then nfsmounted the multistrap rootfs to /nfsrootfs, > chroot to /nfsrootfs and executed 'dpkg --configure -a'. > > It segfaulted :( Might not have been dpkg, it could simply be one of the executables called by the maintainer scripts. What was the output? > Running dpkg without args works ok, so it is the correct architecture :) So use dpkg --configure $package to pin the blame on one package or call the maintainer scripts directly, /var/lib/dpkg/info/$package.preinst etc. > I know it is vague, but what could be causing the segfault ?? Wrong libc between the init and the one needed by dpkg? Weird problems with NFS? Is there a serial connection or an SSH login you can try instead of actually mounting over NFS? > Any other dpkg commands I can/should try ?? dpkg -l to see which packages have been configured and which are broken. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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