Bug#823748: tar: illegal hardware instruction breaks apt-get upgrade

2016-05-18 Thread Vlad Orlov
Hi, > This is because your CPU architecture is not 32 bit, and not i586 or lower. > I'm sure if you set that by hand, you will be able to reproduce that. Yes, I know. Just wanted to confirm that upgrade is safe on 64-bit systems :)

Bug#823748: tar: illegal hardware instruction breaks apt-get upgrade

2016-05-17 Thread Lee Garrett
On 17/05/16 14:21, Vlad Orlov wrote: > Hi, > > This doesn't happen even in VirtualBox working on a host with an old Core 2 > Duo > (both host and guest Debian installations are 64-bit). The upgrade went fine. This is because your CPU architecture is not 32 bit, and not i586 or lower. I'm sure if

Bug#823748: tar: illegal hardware instruction breaks apt-get upgrade

2016-05-17 Thread Vlad Orlov
Hi, This doesn't happen even in VirtualBox working on a host with an old Core 2 Duo (both host and guest Debian installations are 64-bit). The upgrade went fine.

Bug#823748: tar: illegal hardware instruction breaks apt-get upgrade

2016-05-09 Thread Diego Gomez
Like Lee, me neither can reproduce it on my AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 processor. I think it is safe to upgrade. Regards. -- Diego.-

Bug#823748: tar: illegal hardware instruction breaks apt-get upgrade

2016-05-09 Thread Lee Garrett
Hi Dirk, which type of processor do you have on that machine? As ydirson pointed out, older CPU types (80586 and below on the i386 architecture) are not supported anymore in stretch. For everyone else: I can't reproduce this bug on my Intel i5, so it's safe to upgrade. Regards, Lee

Bug#823748: tar: illegal hardware instruction breaks apt-get upgrade

2016-05-08 Thread ydirson
Would it be related to gcc taking advantage of the drop of i565 support ? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/msg1.html

Bug#823748: tar: illegal hardware instruction breaks apt-get upgrade

2016-05-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Package: tar Version: 1.28-2.2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, upgrading tar breaks apt-get/dpkg due to "illegal instruction" errors. * What led up to the situation? tar was upgraded: tar (1.28-2.1 => 1.28-2.2) * What exactly did you do (or