severity 589891 important thanks I don't think that 'grave' is really appropriate here. The latest version of SILO has been out for quite some time, and this is a first report of that kind, which makes me think that this is not a common scenario.
The only major change in SILO since the stable version is the switch from gcc-2.95 to the default gcc (4.3). The rest of the changes should be pretty benign, mostly related to the changes in libc headers which were breaking the ability to build SILO from source. Next week I'll try to prepare a few versions for you to test, the one built with the old compiler, and with various suspicious patches backed out. In the meantime, please test whether you can reproduce the problem with 1.4.14+git20100207-1 - this will narrow the field somewhat. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:02:46AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: silo > Version: 1.4.14+git20100228-1 > Severity: grave > > After quite some downtime (280 days or so) I updated my UltraSparc 10 > running Sid. With that update came also a new silo (skipping one or two > package versions inbetween). > > Since that upgrade silo doesn't start anymore. On boot I just get the > error message "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" even before the silo version > number is shown. > > The version which was installed before is 1.4.13a+git20070930-3 which is > also the version currently in Debian Stable. After downgrading to it, > the box boots fine again. > > Both times, I tried the silo installation (i.e. calling silo on the > command line) while running under 2.6.24 from the > Lenny-while-being-testing installer CD I used to setup this box three > years ago or so, so it shouldn't be that bug again with 32 vs 64 bit > image which happened under some kernels around 2.6.30 or so. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, > 'experimental') > Architecture: sparc (sparc64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64 > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages silo depends on: > ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > lib > > silo recommends no packages. > > silo suggests no packages. > > -- Configuration Files: > /etc/silo.conf changed: > root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root > partition=1 > default=Linux > read-only > timeout=100 > append="video=atyfb:off" > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > initrd=/initrd.img > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=LinuxOLD > initrd=/initrd.img.old > image=/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-sparc64 > label=2.6.30-1 > initrd=/initrd-2.6.30-1-sparc64.img > image=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-sparc64 > label=2.6.32-5 > initrd=/initrd-2.6.32-5-sparc64.img > > > -- no debconf information > > -- debsums errors found: > debsums: changed file /boot/second.b (from silo package) > > -- Jurij Smakov [email protected] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
