Finally found the time to sit down with a sparc box and work through this. NMU diff attached.
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diff -u jfsutils-1.1.12/debian/changelog jfsutils-1.1.12/debian/changelog --- jfsutils-1.1.12/debian/changelog +++ jfsutils-1.1.12/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +jfsutils (1.1.12-2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix alignment problem causing SIGBUS on sparc. Closes: #499078 + + -- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:16:16 +0000 + jfsutils (1.1.12-2) unstable; urgency=low * use different linking parameter on alpha to avoid FTBFS (Closes: #490881) only in patch2: unchanged: --- jfsutils-1.1.12.orig/libfs/log_work.c +++ jfsutils-1.1.12/libfs/log_work.c @@ -2416,6 +2416,7 @@ int32_t xlen, xlength; int16_t nword; int8_t upd_possible = 0; + struct dinode dip_local; /* Local copy of dinode data for alignment purposes */ if (ld->length <= 0) return (0); @@ -2713,7 +2714,8 @@ */ if (ino_rem == 0) { /* inode base segment */ - dip = (struct dinode *) data; + memcpy(&dip_local, data, size_dinode); + dip = &dip_local; if (ln == 1) { /* ibase only */ if (db->db_ibase & mask_8)