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Bug#728706: Debian-installer crashes on IA64 in HPVM (Integrity Virtual Machines)



On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:25:06PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.46-1
> 
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:41:43PM +0100, Lennert Van Alboom wrote:
> > Severity: grave
> 
> Not really, it is not broken for many people.

Fair enough.

> 
> > Booting debian 7.x installer isos in an Integrity VM (virtualization on top of
> > HP-UX/IA64) causes a guest crash after loading the initrd (the menu does work,
> > and the crash happens regardless of selecting 'Install' or 'Expert'):
> 
> So the kernel crashes somewhere.  There is no real development for ia64
> in Debian, so I'm not sure who can help.

Me neither. Support for ia64 has been degrading for a while - it's bad news
that the only properly working version of debian on HPVM is still 5.10. If it
hadn't ever worked I wouldn't worry, but first the SCSI drivers stopped working
(6.x) and now it won't even boot the kernel anymore :-)

> > There is a 3911856 byte vm.core file which I presume is the dump mentioned in
> > the console. 
> 
> Can you try if the "crash" util is able to read this?

Afraid not - when trying:

crash: vm.core: not a supported file format



Thanks,



Lennert

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