On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 07:30:45PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: xserver-xsun24 > > Version: 3.3.4-1 > > > > Has anyone else had problems with the 3.3.4 xserver-xsun* packages? I > > upgraded my SS5/170 with a TCX card today and nolonger had a X > > display. :/ > > > > i had exactly the same problem, and the only way i got the xserver to > run again is by upgrading to libc6 2.1.2-0pre12 (latest for intel > machines, so i had to compile it myself). and on an ipx machine is no > fun, it took about 24 hours). while doing this i discovered a few > other things. the linker for example is completely and utterly broken > (at least on my machine). if i did an 'ld -V' it will dump core. i am > curious to see if other people have the same problem. i tried to > recompile the binutils package, but then of course the linker wouldn't > link itself. so i ended up getting the redhat binutils package, used > alien to convert it to deb, waited for about 12 hours for binutils to > compile from source. voila, i have a linker that works now. i took out > the sparc64 emulation though, so i don't know if this is what caused > the problem in the first place. > > if anybody is interested, i made all these packages (libc6 + binutils) > available by anonymous ftp on caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian/sparc. at > least the xserver is running again (and the crash has nothing to do > with not finding the pex fonts, i run it under the debugger, and it > crashes when it tries to free some memory). > > lessons learned: at least on my machine ld is broken. glibc is > woefully out of date.
I wouldn't call glibc 2.1.1 woefully out of date. On the other hand, the glibc 2.1.2pre3 (notice the pre) which is still in prerelease, has a possibly broken mmap(), which is why it isn't compiled for sparc yet in potato. I am looking into the mmap problem. Until then, I suggest not using glibc 2.1.2pre2 unless you really feal like testing prerelease software. Ben
