Re: Bug#324550: Needs dependency fix [linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with "cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory"]

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:31:37PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:48:53AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:47:14PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > Looks like building the initrd required an upgraded
> > > Depends: directly or indirectly to e2fsprogs.
> > > 
> > > Not sure the minimum version required, but I had 
> > > 1.35-6 when installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 failed
> > > and 1.38-1.1 when installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686
> > > succeeded.
> > 
> > I'm not sure either. Could you give some more details
> > of how it failed with 1.35-6?
> 
> What's going on is that ldd running on unstable now produces a
> pseudo-entry for linux-gate.so.1:
> 
> <tytso@think>   {/usr/projects/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs}
> 521% ldd /usr/lib/e2initrd_helper
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>         libext2fs.so.2 => /lib/libext2fs.so.2 (0x46d18000)
>         libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x4737c000)
>         libblkid.so.1 => /lib/libblkid.so.1 (0x46404000)
>         libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x4642b000)
>         libe2p.so.2 => /lib/libe2p.so.2 (0x463fd000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x462c3000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x462aa000)
> 
> It doesn't do this if you run ldd on the exact same binary on sarge:
> 
> <tytso@fs>      {/vicepa/home/tytso/src}
> 733% ldd /tmp/e2initrd_helper
>         libext2fs.so.2 => /lib/libext2fs.so.2 (0x40021000)
>         libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x4003a000)
>         libblkid.so.1 => /lib/libblkid.so.1 (0x4003d000)
>         libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x40045000)
>         libe2p.so.2 => /lib/libe2p.so.2 (0x40048000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4004e000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> I think it's based on which version of glibc happens to be installed.
> 
> So the dependency isn't on e2fsprogs, per-se, but rather that
> e2fsprogs's initrd script has to filter out the linux-gate.so.1 entry,
> but if you have a newer than a certain glibc, it is incompatible with
> e2fsprogs 1.35-2, and you need to upgrade to a newer version of
> e2fsprogs. 
> 
> I originally added the linux-gate.so filtration in response to a bug
> filed from the amd64 port, but apparently it is now required for all
> platforms given the newer glibc in unstable.  The only way to fix this
> with dependencies is to ask glibc to add a conflicts with (e2fsprogs <
> 1.35-7).

Hi Ted,

Thanks for that, certainly saved me a lot of bother not having
to track it down. I've CCed the glibc maintainers for their
consideration.

-- 
Horms