From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from megatonmonkey.net (cr821974-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.53.173]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1603C482A for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:50:02 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:50:30 -0400 From: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Cc: baldric-exec@baldric.uwo.ca Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Users staying up to date. Message-ID: <20010814215030.A26703@megatonmonkey.net> References: <20010814154037.I25258@megatonmonkey.net> <20010815010034.K22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010815010034.K22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:00:34AM +0100 List-ID: > > I recently found though, that when compiling more complicated > > MPI programs, cc and ld start dropping SIG11's like there was > > no tommorow (more on this after I do some testing). > > OK, I'd be interested to see more detail once we're sure you're on > an uptodate system. > > Run debian installer to completion on one machine > apt-get dist-upgrade > apt-get install nis mpich > tar up / and copy it to all other machines > > If the latest debian installer (never mind what's on the CDs) doesn't > work, then please report the problems. > Thanks for all the feedback. In general, I don't want to submit a bugreport and have the list say "That's already fixed in the latest updated package" :) Which is the reason for my original post. "How does one stay ontop of a _moving_ target like the PARISC development team?" - Anonymous Coward :) I will try out the latest debain intaller and feedback to the list. I'm currently running apt-get on one of our nodes, and trying to get it to an updated state. Hrm. apg-get segfaults randomly. If at first you don't succeed, run, run and run again (until it stops segfaulting). Ohhhhh.... it's working! And traveling through time as tar seems to be reminiscing about how it's unpacking a file it hasn't made yet, because the obviously correct system clock has warned it against time travel :} Ouch... -------------- [Nearing the end of apt-get -f dist-update] Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd.upwd-write Replacing "/etc/passwd" with "/etc/passwd.upwd-write" Writing group-file to /etc/group.upwd-write Replacing "/etc/group" with "/etc/group.upwd-write" dpkg: error processing base-passwd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: base-passwd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [So I run it again] root@node10:/# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Segmentation faultsts... 43% root@node10:/# [Ouch...] [With a dump in /var/log/messages] [dmesg] do_page_fault() pid=13164 command='apt-get' type=6 address=0x40040dd7 vm_start = 0x3ff13000, vm_end = 0x400a4000 YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI PSW: 00000000000001001111110000001111 r0-3 00000000 000002f4 40040dd7 00022350 r4-7 400c98e0 00022330 faf00948 faf00924 r8-11 faf00958 00000001 0001dbe5 faf00888 r12-15 faf00920 00000030 faf008b8 faf008b0 r16-19 faf00760 faf008a4 faf00748 4030c57c r20-23 3ff13000 00000000 00000005 00000001 r24-27 00000001 00190eb9 00000000 0001d900 r28-31 3ff13000 00000000 faf00c80 4029fdab sr0-3 00000000 000002f4 00000000 000002f4 sr4-7 000002f4 000002f4 000002f4 000002f4 IASQ: 000002f4 000002f4 IAOQ: 40040dd7 40040ddb IIR: 081c0254 ISR: 000002f4 IOR: 404a0004 ORIG_R28: 00190eb9 ------------- We're running a hand rolled: Linux node10 2.4.0 #37 Tue Jul 17 22:33:26 EDT 2001 parisc unknown This apt-update was done from a system based on the unstable baseplus tar. ------------- [However, I ran it again, like the good robot I am.] [I kept running it infact, until I get int the following situation:] root@node10:/# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: autoconf2.13 autotools-dev groff-base libdb3 118 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 8 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1105kB/47.5MB of archives. After unpacking 6158kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main dpkg 1.9.16 [1105kB] Fetched 1105kB in 25s (42.7kB/s) debconf: cannot preconfigure packages -- apt-utils is not installed tar: ./conffiles: time stamp 2001-04-23 18:17:20 is 980225879 s in the future tar: ./preinst: time stamp 1999-11-24 19:14:54 is 935650533 s in the future tar: ./prerm: time stamp 1999-11-24 19:14:54 is 935650533 s in the future tar: ./postinst: time stamp 2000-12-23 15:25:50 is 969764789 s in the future tar: ./control: time stamp 2001-07-06 14:33:14 is 986606033 s in the future (Reading database ... 17525 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.8.3 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.16_hppa.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.16_hppa.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite directory `/usr/share/locale/cs' in package texinfo with nondirectory dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.16_hppa.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@node10:/# -------------- In light of these problems. I think I'm going to: - Build a newer kernel. - Try the latest debian installer. - Give apt another shot at upgrading the system. -------------- [Musing] I wonder if running the 715/50's as diskless nodes is as bad an idea as I originally thought. Would 10Mbit switched be faster than the 1gig SCSI drive? (HP C2247M1 0BW4)... probably not. However, it would give us many more active nodes, since many of our systems are just missing drives :} Cheers, Carlos. ------------------------- Baldric Project http://www.baldric.uwo.ca -------------------------