Bug#384881: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#384881: provide amd64 build of user-mode-linux

Mattia Dongili malattia at linux.it
Wed Sep 6 16:17:25 UTC 2006


Hello,

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:11:23AM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> Mattia Dongili (malattia at linux.it) wrote:
[...]
> > "hung" as in "it sits there forever"? oooh so sad... this is not very easy
> > to debug then.
> 
> Yep.  One moment the various 'linux' processes are at the top in `top`, the
> next moment they're gone and nothing happens anymore.

believe it or not I got my hands on an amd64 laptop (authentic AMD
3200+ something), rebuilt u-m-l and rootstrap for amd64 and tested:
the rootfs image creation went totally smooth. I didn't have any
problem.
I had some problems with threaded apps (that of TLS/NTPL stuff but on
amd64 there's no /lib/tls to move away...)

[...]
> In the cases where I got the farthest, it's the 'sync' process that hung,
> called from debootstrap.  In other cases it was 'dpkg-deb' that hung, also

these symptoms resemble a /dev/shm-too-small[1] I had here on i386 but
waiting some time (a few minutes) I could see the thing go on.

[1]: as said previously you should note /dev/shm short in available
space or your computer should already be swapping...

I'm quite inclined to upload the packages with the modified Architecture
field, what do you think?

-- 
mattia
:wq!




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