Bug#549620: ssh: slogin segfaults on MIPS
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:34:30AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:10:23AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> >>> Using slogin to connect to another machine on the local network results
> >>> in slogin segfaulting. The ssh daemon is also segfaulting on startup.
> >>>
> >>> The machine is a qemu VM but people on the debian-mips mailing list
> >>> are reporing the same problem on read MIPS hardware.
> >> That's another instance of the binutils -PIE bug:
> >>
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526961
> >
> > Indeed, thanks - and #538313 is for the workaround. Will upload soon.
>
> Couldn't we just fix binutils to ignore -pie on mips and make it a noop instead
> of having to patch a lot of packages?
I wouldn't object, obviously, but I'm still going to make the OpenSSH
problem go away rather than waiting for a binutils fix/workaround. I can
always undo this change later.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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