Package: base Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer,
I need to boot a linux system on my old 486 to access the parallel port to do some JTAG debugging. I use my recent PC as a NFS root server. I ran: debootstrap --arch=i386 stable /tmp/debian.stable debootstrap --arch=i386 testing /tmp/debian.testing debootstrap --arch=i386 unstable /tmp/debian.unstable And served those directories to the 486, the one after the other. Debian stable is working. Debian testing is not. Debian unstable is not. Running "ls" crashes with "illegal instruction". I found out that the illegal instruction is "cpuid" (this one does not exist on 486 PC) which is in libpthread.so, function __get_cpu_features. Why is that called? I don't know. It should not. I tried to recompile the whole gnu libc beast to not include that function, but failed. I skip the details, I surely did something wrong. And I don't have much time nor energy for that thing. So I report the problem to you, just in case you plan to turn testing into stable, because that would mean that debian will not work on 486 PC anymore. Maybe someone somewhere knows what to do and cares enough to fix things. My bet is that the gnu libc thinks it will run on at least a 586 and includes code for such computer. Is it something in the configure of libc? Is it something with your configuration of gcc (I see include/cpuid.h down in /usr/lib/gcc, I suspect it should not be here, but I really don't know). Well, I don't know. In any case, please don't turn current testing into stable. That would mean no more debian on 486. In the future, if you think you fixed this problem, let me know so I can try with my 486. (Why do some neurons up in my brain shoot high levels of dopamine and serotonin when I read that previous sentence, I don't know.) Anyway, so be it. I did my part. The following "system information" is from my recent PC and is unrelated to the 486 at all, left here because, hum, why not. Regards, Cédric. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
