Re: unable to use dpkg 2.6.15-rc2

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:20:27PM +0100, Luca wrote:
> (please CC me, I'm not subscribed)
> 
> Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> ha scritto:
> >> It's reproducible in 2.6.15-rc1, 2.6.15-rc1-mm1, 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 and
> >> 2.6.15-rc2.
> >> 
> >> It does not occur in 2.6.14.
> >> 
> >> Most easily triggered by "make clean" in the Linux source, for those of
> >> you without access to dpkg. But both clean and dpkg will trigger it.
> > 
> > So far I've not been able to reproduce this; I'm using "make clean"
> > and it works just fine for me (I'm using the current git tree).
> 
> Confirmed here with 2.6.15-rc1 an IDE disk. Kernel is UP with
> CONFIG_PREEMPT and 8KB stack. The following debug options are enabled:
> 

Keith Owens has managed to reproduce this locally, and has been
working on tracking it back to a single change - so, we'll start
trying to figure out whats gone wrong here shortly, and will get
a fix merged as soon as we can.

Thanks for reporting the problem.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan