Re: dpkg 1.8.1.2 gives SIGBUS on sparc

[Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> I originally thought it was a kernel issue from a user. Then when it
> happened to be, I thought it was a kernel issue. After trying out an
> older kernel, known to work well, I thought it was libc6, then I find
> out that dpkg 1.7.2 works perfectly well. So someone needs to figure out
> why this thing is giving a sigbus.
> 
> Sparc users, keep your old dpkg on hold, don't upgrade it.

Bus error, and only on the Sparc, sounds like a typical alignment
problem, but I wouldn't know where to start looking for it in the
sources.


Greetings,

Tomas