Re: dpkg 1.8.1.2 gives SIGBUS on sparc
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:59:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Tomas Berndtsson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> My only concern now is, does 1.7.2 work if I recompile it against the
> current libc6-dev. If it does, then the thing to do is start checking
> the diff between these two versions for possible alignment issues.
Well, I tested a recompile of 1.7.2, and it worked fine. I then tried
1.8.0, and it barfed. So the problem showed up there. I am now going
over the diff's to see what might have happened (there were a lot of
changes between those two versions).
Ben
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