On Wed 10/31/07 at 23:51 PM, patrickbachmann at gmx.net wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> trying to install Maple within a branded zone running Debian Etch
> on Nevada Build 66, I'm experiencing problems with the Java-based
> installer.
> The install script checks `java -version' but after printing the
> version information, the command does not return.
> This happens with both, the installer supplied JRE (Hotspot
> 1.5.0_06-b05) and the one installed via apt (Hotspot
> 1.5.0_10-b03).
> The build I'm running is fairly old and I'm downloading b75 now
> and have been doing so for the past couple of days and expect the
> download to finish by the end of the weekend.
> What could be the problem?
Debian Etch is built on the 2.6.18 Linux kernel, and BrandZ emulates
2.4.21, so I'm surprised you got as far as you did.
I suspect that the Debian glibc detects the 2.4 kernel and falls back to
using the old linuxthreads model instead of the newer NPTL model.
Linuxthreads has never worked on BrandZ, but NPTL does.
"What?!", you ask. "If BrandZ supports 2.4.21, why does it support the
2.6.x thread model and not the 2.4 thread model?" An excellent question.
BrandZ actually supports the 2.4.21 kernel as modified by Red Hat in their
RHEL 3.x releases, and Red Hat backported the NPTL thread model to their
2.4 kernels.
If you want to run Debian Etch under BrandZ, you should probably take a
look at our experimental 2.6 support:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/todo/linux_2_6
Nils
