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Re: Processed: Re: Bug#215010: (no subject)



At Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:48:19 -0500,
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > reassign 215010 libc6
> Bug#215010: Illegal instruction with 2.2 kernel
> Bug reassigned from package `util-linux' to `libc6'.
> 
> > # Critical or wishlist?
> > severity 215010 critical
> Bug#215010: Illegal instruction with 2.2 kernel
> Severity set to `critical'.
> 
> > merge 215010 215012
> Bug#215010: Illegal instruction with 2.2 kernel
> Bug#215012: libc6: SIGILL in XFree86 X server, suspect libc6 upgrade
> Merged 215010 215012.

> > | As I understand it, you
> > | need to upgrade to at least that version because libc6 now compiles
> > | with hardware multiplication instructions by default. Some (or was it
> > | all?) sun4m don't have these instructions, so Linux 2.4.21 emulates them.
> > 
> > 	Okay.
> > 	So libc6 should depend on 2.4.21 kernel images, no ?
> 
> I think libc6's preinst script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.preinst) should
> be changed to fail on kernels earlier than 2.4.21. Right now it looks
> like it checks for 2.2.7 or higher on sparc.

Now I've added it into libc preinst in experimental.

Regards,
-- gotom



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