At 16:41 -0700 1998-08-19, Johnie Ingram wrote: >Out of boredom I compiled the 2.0.95 and found it worked on my own >sparc, but not on the ultra -- all the shells either died in a >segmentation fault or hung completely. This was with a sparc-linux >host/target though (the binutils gagged on a real sparc64 target). > >Just dropping in the current 2.0.92-980414 works somewhat better, but >for some reason dpkg --install won't work: it insists the .deb >contains an invalid data archive.
You are hitting the late 2.1 kernel, glibc 2.1, ext2fs problem, upgrade to at least dpkg 1.4.0.25, which has a workaround for this problem. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>
