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Re: Bug#549620: ssh: slogin segfaults on MIPS



On 05.10.2009 10:53, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:34:30AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:10:23AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Using slogin to connect to another machine on the local network results
in slogin segfaulting. The ssh daemon is also segfaulting on startup.

The machine is a qemu VM but people on the debian-mips mailing list
are reporing the same problem on read MIPS hardware.
That's another instance of the binutils -PIE bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526961

Indeed, thanks - and #538313 is for the workaround. Will upload soon.

Couldn't we just fix binutils to ignore -pie on mips and make it a noop instead
of having to patch a lot of packages?

I wouldn't object, obviously, but I'm still going to make the OpenSSH
problem go away rather than waiting for a binutils fix/workaround. I can
always undo this change later.

the binutils change was done in a few minutes, to ignore pie you would have to change gcc-* as well. If somebody wants to provide such a patch ... I'll apply it. However such a patch does has the disadvantage that you don't see when and if pie gets fixed without rebuilding the packages.

  Matthias


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