Upgrade from slink to potato, IPX
Greetings. Thanks to all who offered assistance on my upgrade from
Debian 2.1 to "frozen potato". The process went fairly well, apart
from a circular dependency that was resolved by re-installing 2.1 with
the 2.2 kernel. However, there seems to be an intermittent problem
with the dynamic linker (ld.so). For example, running some programs
yields the following:
BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 57: elf_get-dynamic_info: Assertion '! "bad dynamic tag"' failed!
I noticed this failure when running 'man' on a valid entry (man on a
non-existent entry does not cause this behavior); I also noticed the
failure during an invocation of 'umount' while the system was
rebooting. And, there are other problems. For example, I see an
"Illegal SPARC instruction" flash by during the runlevel change after
executing 'init 6'.
My platform is a SPARC IPX; 64mb ram, prom rev 2.9. Debian 2.1 seemed
to run fine. If someone has an idea of a fix, please let me
know. Otherwise I'll revert to 2.1 until potato is officially
released. Also, if I can offer any more information please ask. Thanks
much.
Regards,
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