On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:39 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Siggy Brentrup <deb...@psycho.i21k.de> [2009-07-24 12:41]: > > You almost convinced me the problem is not kernel related and > > searching the archives of debian mips yielded a message from > > Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2008/03/msg00039.html > > stating that r4k-ip22 are running on r5k-ip22 machines too. > > > > You may close the bug for now, I'll investigate further and reopen and > > reassign it: living w/o a working sshd on that machine isn't really an > > option.
openssh is compiled with -fPIC on mipsen, downgrading to the stable
version cures the system. Actually I planned to follow up after
compiling w/o -fPIC and testing installation to be sure to have found
the culprit, but since you are writing this, here's the current status:
it seems to be no kernel problem.
> I was going to respond to your earlier message saying that the
> r4k-ip22 kernel now works on both R4K and R5K machines, but I was
> traveling.
>
> The main problem is that we don't have a maintainer for SGI related
> things in Debian anymore (volunteers welcome). Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <tsbog...@alpha.franken.de> does some upstream kernel work so maybe he
> can help you track it down in case it's a kernel bug.
Provided da-manager decides to reopen my account b...@d.o (no reaction
on their part on my gpg-signed mail since Jul 12) I might be
interested to help.
Thanks for caring
Siggy
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