Your message dated Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:13 +0000
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and subject line Bug#668868: fixed in bitcoin 0.6.2.1-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #668868,
regarding bitcoind: Assertion failed at startup on mips (big endian)
to be marked as done.
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668868: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668868
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: bitcoind
Version: 0.3.24~dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
The wheezy bitcoind package is completely unusable on mips (big endian).
When starting bitcoind on mips, it immediately fails with the following error:
bitcoind: main.cpp:1545: bool LoadBlockIndex(bool):
Assertion `block.hashMerkleRoot ==
uint256("0x4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b")'
failed.
New versions apparently fail to build from source, most like due to the
test suite being run at build time.[1]
I have filed a wishlist-severity bug[2] against bitcoind asking for
big-endian support. However, that's unlikely to happen any time soon,
because upstream has said that big-endian simply isn't supported and has
probably never worked[3]. I'm attaching a patch that will prevent bitcoind
from being built on big-endian architectures for now, so that the lack of
big-endian support won't prevent new versions from propagating to testing
on little-endian architectures.
Since bitcoind is currently useless on big-endian architectures, a bug
should[4] be filed against ftp.debian.org once this patch is applied,
asking that the old binaries be removed from the following big-endian
architectures: mips powerpc s390 sparc sparc64 hppa powerpcspe.
Cheers,
- Dwayne
[1]
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=bitcoin&arch=mips&ver=0.6.0-1&stamp=1333140761
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668864
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665922
[4] http://www.debian.org/devel/testing (under "Why is it sometimes hard to
get Architecture: all packages into 'testing'?")
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: mips
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-4kc-malta
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bitcoind depends on:
ii libboost-filesystem1.46.1 1.46.1-8
ii libboost-program-options1.46.1 1.46.1-8
ii libboost-system1.46.1 1.46.1-8
ii libboost-thread1.46.1 1.46.1-8
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii libcrypto++9 5.6.1-5
ii libdb5.1++ 5.1.29-1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6
ii libminiupnpc5 1.5-2
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1-4
ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2
bitcoind recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bitcoind suggests:
pn db-util <none>
pn db4.7-util <none>
pn db4.8-util <none>
-- no debconf information
>From 15017391424f9c29f4ae7e29729cd784a11d598d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <dl...@dlitz.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:19:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Only build little-endian architectures
---
debian/control | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1c83ea7..1ca3f67 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ Homepage: http://www.bitcoin.org/
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/bitcoin.git
+# The Architecture section should list all the little-endian architectures.
+# See http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo for a list.
Package: bitcoind
-Architecture: any
+Architecture: any-alpha any-amd64 any-armel any-armhf any-i386 any-ia64
+ any-mipsel any-sh4
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Suggests: ${cdbs:Suggests}
Description: peer-to-peer network based digital currency - daemon
--
1.7.9.5
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: bitcoin
Source-Version: 0.6.2.1-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bitcoin, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.debian.tar.gz
to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.debian.tar.gz
bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.dsc
to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.dsc
bitcoin_0.6.2.1.orig.tar.gz
to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoin_0.6.2.1.orig.tar.gz
bitcoind_0.6.2.1-1_amd64.deb
to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoind_0.6.2.1-1_amd64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 668...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> (supplier of updated bitcoin package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmas...@debian.org)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:09:46 +0200
Source: bitcoin
Binary: bitcoind
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.6.2.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>
Changed-By: Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>
Description:
bitcoind - peer-to-peer network based digital currency - daemon
Closes: 667114 668864 668868
Changes:
bitcoin (0.6.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
.
* Add -fpermissive to CXXFLAGS to work around build failure with gcc
4.7.
Closes: bug#667114. Thanks to Matthias Klose.
* Only build on little-endian architectures: Upstream code does not
support big-endian.
Closes: bug#668868, #668864. Thanks to Dwayne C. Litzenberger.
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