> > Since that upgrade many processes won't start and even commands like ps are > > giving back "illegal instruction". I'm guessing that there is some > > instruction in libc6 that is not valid on the SPARC (i.e. a bug), but am > > not sure now how to back out of this situation. > If you have a sun4c system, you are shit outta luck. Current Debian > is being compiled with hw multiply instructions which are not available > on sun4c processors, effectively sun4c isn't supported anymore and > frankly I don't blame them, stick with Sid. Hmmmm... is it worth making some sort of note about this available - I still have sun4c systems I want to run so it might be nice to give a flag to dselect to say 'find the most advanced packages that are sun4c compatible'... or at least a package list of the last versions available for sun4c.
Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seasons change, things come to pass"
