Hello, I updated an existing Debian SID installation today on a Sparcstation Ultra 30. Everything went as expected except for two issues:
1) During "apt-get dist-upgrade", the kernel was updated to vmlinux-6.1.0-7-sparc64, and the initramfs was created as expected. However, booting the new kernel failed. After the kernel and ramdisk are loaded, there is an error message: "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" and the Boot PROM returns to the "ok" prompt. I tried it a few times to confirm the error. So for now I'm back to using vmlinux-5.16.0-6-sparc64. I'm currently using SILO to load the initrd and kernel. 2) While running "apt autoremove" after the upgrade, I noticed that telnet, telnetd and git were going to be deleted. After rebooting, I was able to re-install telnet and telnetd but the installation of git failed: ***** # apt-get install git Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: git : Depends: git-man (< 1:2.39.1-.) but 1:2.40.0-1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ***** I could probably go back to an older version of git and git-man from Debian snapshots, but for now it's ok, since I don't use git very often on the Ultra 30, anyway. It's actually pretty amazing that everything works as well as it does. Thanks to everyone who works to keep Debian and Linux running on the old Sparcstations! -Stan Johnson
