On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 16:54 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! > > Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > This one time, at band camp, Patrick Baggett said: > > > Hi Camm, > > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Camm Maguire <camm@maguirefamily.org>wrote: > > > > > > > Greetings! gdb stops with SIGTRAP at 0 on merulo, the sole debian ia64 > > > > porterbox. This is a known bug fixed in later versions of the 3.2 > > > > kernel series: > > > > > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-ia64@lists.debian.org/msg03404.html > > > > > > > > For some reason we are having trouble upgrading the kernel in the stable > > > > release, and debian-admin won't upgrade the merulo kernel without this. > > > > What is blocking the progress here? > > > > > > > I would have thought Camm should try, at a guess, the maintainers of > > the kernel, as they should have something to do with uploads of the > > kernel. Maybe I've missed something, though. > > Indeed -- thanks! By way of further information, I can report that Dann > Frazier has tried the kernel package in stable on his machine and can > use gdb without issue. So would it be possible for the kernel > maintainers listed above to determine why this bug, ostensibly fixed, is > still present at merulo? Not a clue. Dann is the only kernel maintainer with responsibility for ia64 and I'm not sure he has much opportunity to work on it any more. I've just fixed occasional build failures; beyond that I don't know or care about the platform. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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