Ok, third try.
---------------------------------------- As it seems that my first two mails vanished in the spam filter, next try with different settings. ---------------------------------------- I discovered by chance that mercurial is working after # echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment (meaning fix problem, default 0 means do nothing) which strongly suggests that there is an alignment problem in mpatch.c . Most of the times it is code which implicitly relies on a specific alignment of structure members or array elements, which is not standardized and cpu, os and compiler specific. http://netwinder.osuosl.org/users/b/brianbr/public_html/alignment.html and http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php have good explanations. Cheers Arno ---------------------------------------- I did some experiments with various versions: 1.8.3-1 (wheezy): only working with echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment 1.8.4+174-6ab8b17adc03 (upstream hg-stable): only working with echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment 1.9.1 (upstream previous release): only working with echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment 1.9.1-2 (sid): only working with echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment 1.9.2 (upstream latest release): working 1.9.2+17-d23dfcbb8840+20110912 (upstream main): working All tests were limited to hg verify on a small repository. It is not mentioned in the release notes but something was fixed between 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. Therefore I suggest Debian upgrading to 1.9.2. Cheers Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
