Problems with Woody on Sparc.

[Michael Lundkvist <ml@epact.se>]

Hi!

I just read in the debian-sparc-archives about the SIGBUS problems
with woody on SPARC.

I've got the same problem. 

I did a clean install of Potato on a SparcStation 20 and then
dist-upgraded to Woody.

First thing to fail was install of shellutils. Strace of dpkg showed
the last syscall to be an lstat of "/usr/share/locale/et". Just for
the hell of it I removed that directory and was able to get a bit
further. It then failed after lstating
"/usr/share/doc/shellutils/THANKS.gz". I removed that too and was able 
to install shellutils.

It is now failing on tar instead.

These are the last lines of the output from strace -f.
> 3290  rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 0x50062ac8, 8) = 0
> 3290  rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 0x50062ac8, 8) = 0
> 3290  rmdir("//usr/lib/mime/packages/tar") = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
> 3290  lstat("//usr/lib/mime/packages/tar", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=187, ...}) = 0
> 3290  lstat("/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> 3290  --- SIGBUS (Bus error) ---
> 3290  +++ killed by SIGBUS +++
 
I don't think I'll try to fix it be removing "/.". :)

I'm running 2.2.18pre21.

I get a few messages about unimplemented syscalls at boot:
> Jan 13 17:10:55 twenty kernel: init[1]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 155
> Jan 13 17:10:55 twenty kernel: rcS[7]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 44
> Jan 13 17:10:55 twenty kernel: rcS[7]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 155
> Jan 13 17:10:55 twenty kernel: rcS[7]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 154
> Jan 13 17:10:55 twenty kernel: loadkeys[9]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 155
> Jan 13 17:10:55 twenty kernel: mount[13]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 44

Is there another kernel I should try?

/Micke

PS Please CC me, I'm not on the list.

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Michael Lundkvist