tags 103823 + potato thanks On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:37:28PM +0100, GAUFILLET Pierre wrote: > Sorry to send you directly this mail, but I do not know clearly how the > debian bug mailing list is working...
I will forward this mail to the bug. To send mail to the bug, which also appears on debian-boot for boot-floppies bugs, just send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which in this case is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with this code to be able to help. However, I see you are using the potato boot-floppies. You may have better luck by downloading the current woody boot-floppies. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/ > > So, I met the same problem on my configuration (BP6 SMP, kernel 2.2.19, NIC > 8139C, the 8139too driver is integrated into the kernel, boot-floppies > 2.2.23). During the network configuration, dbootstrap hangs. > After a few tests, I found that, as I saw it in the previous mails, > dbootstrap freezes was during network activation (call to ifconfig ...), and > gdb indicates that the faulty instruction was : > > while (fgets(line,MAXLINE,output) != NULL) in the function execlog in > util.c, with output=popen("/sbin/ifconfig...","r"); just before > > More precisely, the program stops in fgets, in a "read" system call on the > pipe "output". > > I do not understand the reason of this, but I tried some other things that > can perhaps help you : > - I add a breakpoint on the fgets line and run dbootstrap until here. Then, > with gdb I try "print feof(output)", awating -1 because ifconfig does not > issue anything with this command line, but it returns 0 ! > - I add fungetc(fgetc(output),output) in dbootstrap, just before the while > and it freezes on the fgetc call this time. > - I comment out the log instructions (the whole while loop), and then > dbootstrap runs correctly (excepted for the log of course). > > Well, my idea now is that the problem is not in the 8139too driver, but > rather in the pipe management of the kernel or the libc. Before I read your > mails, I was thinking about something regarding SMP (bad protection on pipe > accesses for example), but it seems the problem has been identified even > without SMP, right ? > > I understood you have not any 8139 NIC so you can not try anything about > that. Well, if I can help or try something, tell me. > > Regards, > > Pierre > > PS : If you want to answer me, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
