Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Brian Szymanski a écrit : > >> Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> >>> * Carlo Segre <[email protected]> [2009-01-19 11:41]: >>> >>> >>>> I am wondering if there is any 2.6.26 mipsel kernel suitable for >>>> running on an QEMU emulated machine? >>>> >>>> >>> Yes, the Malta kernels can be used in QEMU. >>> >>> Aurelien: can you update your QEMU mips page >>> http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_mips_qemu.php to lenny/2.6.26? >>> >>> >> FWIW, using the 2.6.18 kernels specified in the current page, I am >> getting Error -3 while decompressing the initrd, as well as random >> instruction bus errors, memory corruption, etc (it differs from boot to >> boot, sometimes makes it to the installer, sometimes not) - one such >> attempt (all proceeds normally up to this point): >> >> ... >> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >> VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed >> Setting up filesystem, please wait ... >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bb045(2247)->9fbf0000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bb90c(1563)->9fbf1000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bbf27(1913)->9fbf2000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bc6a0(1590)->9fbf3000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802b9cd6(1894)->9fbf4000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802ba43c(2182)->9fbf5000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bacc2(1962)->9fbf6000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bb46c(1848)->9fbf7000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bbba4(1697)->9fbf8000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802bc245(1761)->9fbf9000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802b5926(1676)->9fbfa000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802b5fb2(1727)->9fbfb000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802b6671(2246)->9fbfc000(4096) >> Error -3 while decompressing! >> 802b6f37(1825)->9fbfd000(4096) >> Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd. >> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x2aec5a18 *** >> Aborted >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Bus error >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Bus error >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Bus error >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Segmentation fault >> Bus error >> Bus error >> Segmentation fault >> Bus error >> /build/buildd/cdebconf-0.114etch1/src/debconf.c:135 (main): Cannot >> initialize debconf template database >> >> I am using qemu on ubuntu/amd64 (intrepid and hardy) but I don't think >> the ubuntu qemu packages are so bad that it would explain this? >> >> > > I am not able to reproduce those problems, even with the ubuntu/amd64 > package (installed on a Debian Lenny). Are you using the exact command > line from this page to launch qemu? > > > Sure enough, I wasn't using the exact command on your page. The offending parameter (at least in terms of the Error -3's, which happen every time, as opposed to the bus errors, etc. which were intermittent) seems to be "-m 512" to increase available memory. Looks like the thresshold for the problem is between "-m 507" and "-m 508". Is this a known problem?
Thanks! -- Brian Szymanski
