Fixed upstream, thanks Eric! Marking as affecting Ubuntu, as even trusty's qemu does not have that fix yet. For the record, lp:platform- api uses posix timers for the sensor emulation, so running its tests will reproduce this qemu problem (and verify its fix).
** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: qemu Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042388 Title: qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257 (timer_create) Status in QEMU: Fix Released Status in “qemu” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Running qemu-arm-static for git HEAD. When I try to install ghc from debian into my arm chroot I get: Setting up ghc (7.4.1-4) ... qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257 ghc: timer_create: Function not implemented qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257 ghc-pkg: timer_create: Function not implemented dpkg: error processing ghc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ghc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1042388/+subscriptions