[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#176485: uml does not start up with slirp backend

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:23:24PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this bug is 3.5 years old and I can't reproduce it here with current
> user-mode-linux package (iow, the slirp backend works here).
> 
> Can some of you still reproduce it? If not (or if no answer comes) I'll
> close this bug in a couple of weeks.

This bug was reported against user-mode-linux 2.4.x.
There have been a large version jump.

This bug was caused by a compiler problem:
user-mode-linux 2.4.x build with gcc-3.3  -> tt mode is broken
user-mode-linux 2.4.x build with gcc-2.95 -> slirp support is broken.

In both case the symptom was a failure to boot.

I have been using user-mode-linux 2.4.x build with gcc-2.95 in skas mode
with slirp network for ages without trouble.

With more recent user-mode-linux 2.4.x release, I hit a issue with
hostsfs support that is unrelated to this bug, but I got stuck to use
older release.

I would be quite happy to test user-mode-linux 2.6 but I will not have enough
bandwidth until September.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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