Bug#699693: "Illegal instruction" when installing (creating certificate) with Wheezy's version 1:6.0p1-3 of openssh-server on a system with Cyrix MII / IBM 6x86
Control: reassign -1 openssl
Control: merge 699692 -1
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 05:50:11PM +0100, Hans-Juergen Mauser wrote:
> When trying a new Wheezy install on a machine with Cyrix MII / IBM
> 6x86 CPU, openssh-server cannot complete it's install routine
> because the creation of the default certificate fails reproducibly
> ith the result "illegal instruction".
>
> It seems as if the package is compiled with some optimisation not
> suitable for regular Pentium machine.
>
> I suggest checking the compilation options, as encryption is a basic
> requirement of any system and should not be privileged to most
> recent processors. SSL and/or SSH failing at install time even
> prevents establishing a secure remote connection to take care of the
> problem.
Our openssh packages aren't compiled with any processor-specific
options. The problem here is much more likely to be in openssl, and is
almost certainly identical to the bug you filed there, so reassigning
and merging.
Regards,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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