Bug#38978: bug#38978: illegal instruction error on 386

[Joost Kooij <joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com>]

Hi,

> I get these too since I yesterday upgraded my 386sx16 to potato current.

Just an update:

I tried downgrading to libc6 2.1.1-2 and that really broke things (ps
dumping core etc.) It looks like the newer versions are indeed a big
improvement.

I tested a 386dx machine with the harddisk from the 386sx and there's no
difference, route, netstat, ipchains all SIGILL and coredump.  When I put
the disk in a pentium, all is well, except that some postinsts (such as
libc6.postinst - it put my machine in the "Factory" timezone, it used to
be set correctly before) seem to have silently failed during the initial
upgrade.  I reran all postinst scripts manually on the pentium and that
fixed things.

I tried libc6 2.1.2-0pre4 today and it still has the same problems as
-0pre2 (SIGILL on route, netstat, ipchains.)  If you need more detailed
info from me just ask.

Cheers,


Joost

cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.9 (root@boris) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 Debian 
GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat May 15 00:08:09 CEST 1999

cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : unknown
cpu family      : 3
model           : 0
model name      : unknown
stepping        : unknown
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : no
fpu_exception   : no
cpuid level     : -1
wp              : no
flags           :
bogomips        : 3.28