Re: [NOTICE] libc6 problems (Re: libc and other things)

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 01:19:41PM -0700, juziel@home.com wrote:
> >
> > Yeah... it seems as though the LX is the un-4m... :)
> >
> > I've heard of people having audio working on the LX (with DBRI,
> > same as the 10 and 20, but I don't hear a peep outa my SS10).
> > A coworker also told me that X runs nicely in RH 6.0 on his LX,
> > while it croaks within 5 minutes on my SS10.  (I'm dual-booting
> > RH and Debian.)
> >
> > But yeah... it remains that 2.2.7 does not work on my machine.
> > After SILO, maybe a line or two is printed out (I'm not near
> > my machine at the moment), and the machine locks up hard (no
> > Stop-A's to save me)...

> I have an LX that will not boot 2.2.7, and it is not compiled with ay
> audio support.

> Can we get a break down of the compilers used? I've tried egcs 1.1.1
> and gcc 2.7.2.3.

As is mentioned in another posting, a bug was just discovered in the
kernel which is causing this (a linked list is being screwed up).  On
the vger mailing list people are suggesting that the problem is
dependent on memory configuration.

Hopefully this patch will soon make it into CVS and into a stock,
upstream kernel.  I'd like to keep our kernels synchronized with the
other platforms.  However, I will compile a patched kernel and put it
up on my local ftp/http site.


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu


Index: arch/sparc/mm/iommu.c
--- arch/sparc/mm/iommu.c       1998/04/15 14:58:37     1.9
+++ arch/sparc/mm/iommu.c       1999/05/07 05:32:04
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@
                                if (ia[i].addr <= ia[l].addr) {
                                        ia[i].next = l;
                                        ia[m].next = i;
+                                       break;
                                }
                        if (l == -1)
                                ia[m].next = i;