Package: binutils Version: 2.19.51.20090714-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Hi Matthias, I have been fighting with this for a few days now, but I think I finally found the culprit... I have a couple of diskless machines and I build custom kernels for them. A couple of days ago I updated my kernel build machine to the latest packages in unstable. The update brought in new gcc and binutils packages. After I used those to build a new kernel for one of the diskless machines the machine would not boot anymore -- after fetching the kernel and the initrd image, the machine would spontaneously reboot right after displaying "Uncompressing kernel... done", or would just hang there. It took me a while to figure out the change that introduced the problem but after downgrading one package at a time I finally tracked the problem down to binutils_2.19.51.20090714-1: building my kernel with binutils_2.19.51.20090714-1 results in the problem described above and building my kernel with binutils_2.19.1-1 (currently in testing) results in a bootable kernel. I thought I'd report this right away to prevent this binutils from entering testing. There were no error messages or anything from the kernel; just the spontaneous reboot or hang. No configuration kernel configuration changes either; the only difference in a working test case and a non-working test case was building with different versions of binutils. There's nothing special about the PC that had the problem booting the kernel. It's an old machine that has never had problems with Linux. I'll be out of pocket for a couple of days, in case you need more information and try to reach me. Cheers, Eloy Paris.- -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages binutils depends on: ii libc6 2.9-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime binutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages binutils suggests: pn binutils-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
