Hi. I'm very new to Sparcs, but managed to get debian installed on the Ultra 2 my boss dropped on my desk. I used the potato CD image to boot, then upgraded it to testing. Everything works ok, except when trying to install X font stuff, it's failing because mkfontdir segfaults. This is happening both with the default (potato) kernel, and the 2.4.1 custom kernel I compiled. Is there something I'm maybe doing wrong, or should I file a bug report? Thanks for any help anyone could offer.
(apt-get output below) # apt-get install task-gnome-desktop task-x-window-system Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: task-x-window-system-core xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable xutils The following NEW packages will be installed: task-gnome-desktop task-x-window-system task-x-window-system-core xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable xutils 0 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 11.7MB of archives. After unpacking 17.3MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://www.kernel.org testing/main task-gnome-desktop 1.0.10 [2750B] Get:2 http://www.kernel.org testing/main task-x-window-system 3.1 [2774B] Get:3 http://www.kernel.org testing/main task-x-window-system-core 2.3 [3008B] Get:4 http://www.kernel.org testing/main xfonts-100dpi 4.0.2-1 [2174kB] Get:5 http://www.kernel.org testing/main xfonts-75dpi 4.0.2-1 [1909kB] Get:6 http://www.kernel.org testing/main xfonts-base 4.0.2-1 [5928kB] Get:7 http://www.kernel.org testing/main xfonts-cyrillic 4.0.2-1 [428kB] Get:8 http://www.kernel.org testing/main xfonts-scalable 4.0.2-1 [794kB] Get:9 http://www.kernel.org testing/main xutils 4.0.2-1 [432kB] Fetched 11.7MB in 4s (2566kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package xutils. (Reading database ... 19856 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xutils (from .../xutils_4.0.2-1_sparc.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-base. Unpacking xfonts-base (from .../xfonts-base_4.0.2-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-100dpi. Unpacking xfonts-100dpi (from .../xfonts-100dpi_4.0.2-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-75dpi. Unpacking xfonts-75dpi (from .../xfonts-75dpi_4.0.2-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-scalable. Unpacking xfonts-scalable (from .../xfonts-scalable_4.0.2-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package task-x-window-system-core. Unpacking task-x-window-system-core (from .../task-x-window-system-core_2.3_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package task-gnome-desktop. Unpacking task-gnome-desktop (from .../task-gnome-desktop_1.0.10_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-cyrillic. Unpacking xfonts-cyrillic (from .../xfonts-cyrillic_4.0.2-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package task-x-window-system. Unpacking task-x-window-system (from .../task-x-window-system_3.1_all.deb) ... Setting up xutils (4.0.2-1) ... Setting up xfonts-base (4.0.2-1) ... Running mkfontdir in misc font directory.../var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-base.postinst: line 58: 501 Segmentation fault $currentc md $longdir dpkg: error processing xfonts-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Setting up xfonts-100dpi (4.0.2-1) ... Running mkfontdir in 100dpi font directory.../var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-100dpi.postinst: line 58: 506 Segmentation fault $curr entcmd $longdir dpkg: error processing xfonts-100dpi (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Setting up xfonts-75dpi (4.0.2-1) ... Running mkfontdir in 75dpi font directory.../var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-75dpi.postinst: line 58: 511 Segmentation fault $curren tcmd $longdir dpkg: error processing xfonts-75dpi (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Setting up xfonts-scalable (4.0.2-1) ... Running update-fonts-scale in Speedo font directory...done. Running mkfontdir in Speedo font directory.../var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-scalable.postinst: line 58: 532 Segmentation fault $cu rrentcmd $longdir dpkg: error processing xfonts-scalable (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of task-x-window-system-core: task-x-window-system-core depends on xfonts-base (>> 4.0); however: Package xfonts-base is not configured yet. task-x-window-system-core depends on xfonts-100dpi; however: Package xfonts-100dpi is not configured yet. task-x-window-system-core depends on xfonts-75dpi; however: Package xfonts-75dpi is not configured yet. task-x-window-system-core depends on xfonts-scalable; however: Package xfonts-scalable is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing task-x-window-system-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of task-gnome-desktop: task-gnome-desktop depends on task-x-window-system-core; however: Package task-x-window-system-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing task-gnome-desktop (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up xfonts-cyrillic (4.0.2-1) ... Running mkfontdir in cyrillic font directory.../var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-cyrillic.postinst: line 58: 537 Segmentation fault $ currentcmd $longdir dpkg: error processing xfonts-cyrillic (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of task-x-window-system: task-x-window-system depends on task-x-window-system-core; however: Package task-x-window-system-core is not configured yet. task-x-window-system depends on xfonts-cyrillic; however: Package xfonts-cyrillic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing task-x-window-system (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable task-x-window-system-core task-gnome-desktop xfonts-cyrillic task-x-window-system E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (strace of mkfontdir (I'm not sure if this is helpful)) # strace mkfontdir execve("/usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir", ["mkfontdir"], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="jones", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x3ba00 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 SYS_63() = 0 mmap(NULL, 14419, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7001c000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\0\0\1\0\0\204"..., 1024) = 1024 SYS_63() = 0 mmap(NULL, 265560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7002e000 mprotect(0x7005e000, 68952, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x7005e000, 73728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x20000) = 0x7005e000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\0\0\1\0\0\31"..., 1024) = 1024 SYS_63() = 0 mmap(NULL, 123632, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x70070000 mprotect(0x7007e000, 66288, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x70080000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = 0x70080000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\0\0\1\0\0020"..., 1024) = 1024 SYS_63() = 0 mmap(NULL, 1251232, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x70090000 mprotect(0x701a8000, 104352, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x701b0000, 57344, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x110000) = 0x701b0000 mmap(0x701be000, 14240, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x701be000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\0\0\1\0\0020"..., 1024) = 1024 SYS_63() = 0 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\0\0\1\0\0020"..., 1024) = 1024 SYS_63() = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x7001c000, 14419) = 0 getpid() = 539 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
