[Debian-ppc64-devel] My iMac crashed when creating a ppc64 chroot

[Charles Plessy]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:43:51PM +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote :
> 
> The above debootstrap command works on my PowerMac G5 1.8GHz. Other
> people are using it on OpenPower machines and I did not hear
> anything about crashes before. Which kernel are you using?

Hello,

I am using a debian kernel in which I have added builtin support for the
thermal control driver of my iMac (it does not work as a module). But
apart from this it is a 2.6.15 debian kernel. Interestingly, I later
managed to install a chroot in my home directory, while any previous or
further attempt to install it in /usr/local crashes the machine...

> 
> Anyway, I prepared and uploaded a ppc64 chroot environment at
> 
> http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/ppc64-chroot.tar.bz2
> 
> Perhaps you could unpack this on your machine and try if that one
> works for you.

Thanks. I useed your chroot, but unfortunately I could not compile
a package from its sources.

root at sorbet:/# apt-get build-dep root
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Build-dependencies for root could not be satisfied.

If I try anyway, I get the following error:

sh: dpkg-source: command not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x root_5.09.01-7.dsc' failed.
Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
E: Child process failed

and trying to install dpkg-dev is unsuccessful:

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  dpkg-dev: Depends: perl5
            Depends: perl-modules but it is not going to be install
E: Broken packages

Best,

-- 
Charles