Package: powerpc-utils
Version: 1.1.3-22
Severity: important

hi,

I have this OldWorld box, and it has a large nvramrc patch applied to
its firmware. Now this is so large that it makes the command barf:

nvsetenv boot-device "/pci/Apple53C875Card/s...@0:7,grubof.modules"       
string value in variable 25 is too long (1729 bytes)

is what I get whenever I do a command of any sort, but I can directly
check the contents from /proc/device-tree/ entries, so it's not the
firmware, but the util that's got the problem.

Taking a wild, semi-uneducated guess, I'd say it was some sort of buffer
issue, and the app refusing to execute fully because it would overflow
otherwise, or something like that.

thanks,
                                simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (400, 'proposed-updates'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.7-pylon
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages powerpc-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

powerpc-utils recommends no packages.

powerpc-utils suggests no packages.

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