On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:59:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Tomas Berndtsson wrote: > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I originally thought it was a kernel issue from a user. Then when it > > > happened to be, I thought it was a kernel issue. After trying out an > > > older kernel, known to work well, I thought it was libc6, then I find > > > out that dpkg 1.7.2 works perfectly well. So someone needs to figure out > > > why this thing is giving a sigbus. > > > > > > Sparc users, keep your old dpkg on hold, don't upgrade it. > > > > Bus error, and only on the Sparc, sounds like a typical alignment > > problem, but I wouldn't know where to start looking for it in the > > sources. > > My only concern now is, does 1.7.2 work if I recompile it against the > current libc6-dev. If it does, then the thing to do is start checking > the diff between these two versions for possible alignment issues.
Well, I tested a recompile of 1.7.2, and it worked fine. I then tried 1.8.0, and it barfed. So the problem showed up there. I am now going over the diff's to see what might have happened (there were a lot of changes between those two versions). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'