On 27.11.2016 19:27, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-11-27 18:34 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> On 27.11.2016 16:51, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2016-11-27 13:39 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> >>>> Control: tags -1 + help moreinfo >>>> Control: severity -1 important >>>> >>>> On 27.11.2016 08:38, Sven Joachim wrote: >>>>> Control: reassign -1 binutils 2.27.51.20161124-1 >>>>> Control: retitle -1 binutils: creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 >>>>> Control: severity -1 grave >>>>> >>>>> On 2016-11-26 15:13 +0100, Damien Wyart wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> After running further tests today, I think this is in fact *not* >>>>>> related to gcc but to the kernel itself. >>>>>> >>>>>> I tested all 6.2.1-X versions as well as gcc-5 (5.4.1-3) and all the >>>>>> kernels fail to boot (balck screen just after grub and nothing in the >>>>>> logs). >>>>> >>>>> Same here, downgrading binutils to 2.27.51.20161118-2 helped. I'm >>>>> reassigning the bug and bumping the severity, since several people have >>>>> observed the problem. >>>> >>>> The original report talks about a 4.4 problem on , which afaik is >>>> superseded in >>>> unstable by newever versions released after the GCC 6 release. This is >>>> now made >>>> a binutils RC issue for building a kernel which is not in the archive >>>> anymore. >>>> Please could you validate that the issue exists with the linux package in >>>> unstable as well? >>> >>> I have noticed the problem with vanilla Linux 4.8.11 from kernel.org, so >>> I suspect the Debian kernel is affected as well. There is no console >>> output at all, the system freezes right when uncompressing the kernel. >>> >>> It should be noted that I haven't noticed the problem on my desktop >>> (which has a 32-bit userland but a 64-bit kernel) where I have >>> CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y, but on my laptop which uses the default >>> CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=y it is reproducible. >> >> if it's really binutils, I prepared a package reverting the fix for PR >> ld/20815. >> Would be nice if somebody could check that out: >> https://people.debian.org/~doko/tmp/binutils_2.27.51.20161124-1.1_amd64.deb > > Thanks, that binutils package produces a working kernel here.
please could you check again with https://people.debian.org/~doko/tmp/binutils_2.27.51.20161127-1.1_amd64.deb having the suggested fix proposed at https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2016-11/msg00348.html
