Bug#433187: Installing Debian on Ultrasparc III machines

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

> BTW, lebrun.d.o, also an USIII, running 2.6.23-rc6 plus the aforementioned
> patch still created unkillable dpkg-query processes.


Thanks for the hint, saves me the work to give it a try. Building seems
to work on US II CPUs, though, and aptitude doesn't crash as described
below:

Outside of the chroot:

- login as user != root (we're using nss-db here didn't check if that
makes a difference, but I guess you have a similar setup on lebrun)
- use su or sudo to become root
- run aptitude -u (for example...)

.... frozen.
Running the same under strace requieres you to kill -9 the aptitude
processes, but it doesn't freeze the machine.

The machine doesn't freeze with a libc6 from lenny.

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Bernd Zeimetz
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