Re: HPPA and lenny

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

Christoph Martin wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Peter Palfrader schrieb:
>> while discussing the state of our infrastructure among some members of DSA
>> and the security team we once more realized how badly hppa was doing.  First
>> concerns about this architecture were raised at least half a year ago, and it
>> doesn't appear as if we are any closer to resolving them.  It doesn't look
>> good at all.
>>
>> We do have two autobuilders, but one of them is currently down for whatever
>> reason (and the rsys excuse for remote management is a joke):
>>
>> | [17208343.620000] awk (pid 1061): Protection id trap (code 27) at 00000000400b4763
>> | [17208343.712000] Backtrace:
>> | [17208343.740000]
>> (that's the complete output.)

Does the kernel has this patch included:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7a3f5134a8f5bd7fa38b5645eef05e8a4eb62951

>> This may or may not be related to the issue where everytime something
>> even remotely related to ruby gets close to the system they lock up.
>>
>> At least the (random) crashing issue has to be fixed if hppa wants
>> to release with lenny.

Sure. I assume the patch above should help a lot.

Helge