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

[Ardo van Rangelrooij]

Mattia Dongili (malattia at linux.it) wrote:
> 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.

Interesting.  Then I'm really wondering what I'm doing wrong...  I've also
rebooted to a kernel with no vserver stuff (in case that would matter...;
one never knows) but that didn't help either.

What are your settings in the rootstrap config file?  Maybe something is
amis in there on my side.

> 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.

Well, I'm only using 30M out of 1G.  Seems plenty to me...

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

No swapping at all.

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

Please go ahead.  The more people get their hands on this the better...

Thanks,
Ardo
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