On 7 April 2016 at 15:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Knut! > > On 04/07/2016 01:48 PM, Knut Petter Ølberg wrote: > > Trying to install from ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ > > <http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/> is currently just throwing "The > > installer failed to download a file from the mirror." for me atleast. > > This is in an LDOM on T5140. Any way of getting around this? > > > > (...) > > Apr 7 03:13:49 main-menu[166]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package > > doesn't exist (ignored) > > (...) > > Apr 7 03:15:40 main-menu[166]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package > > It looks like the libc6-udeb is not installable. This is most likely > related to the fact that glibc (the source package for libc6-udeb) > fails to build from source with the testsuite enabled (the same > is true for systemd, btw): > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=glibc&suite=sid > > Many testsuite are failing on sparc64 due to segmentation faults, > albeit the number of such cases has dropped by around 100-150 > packages ever since the buildds were updated to kernel 4.5 > which addresses a stack corruption bug which was responsible > for many segmentation faults we were seeing. > > I will build both systemd and glibc manually tonight with > the testsuites disabled, upload them and generate a new > set of installation images. > > Those should be available tomorrow. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > Hi, Managed to install from netinst using the workarounds mentioned in other posts. -So for the installer to load the "cdrom" had to execute shell and modprobe sunvdc and sunvnet -Weren't able to pick packages to be installed, so had to boot in rescue and install openssh server and update modules and run update-initramfs -After installation no console on ttyS0, started with systemctl enable [email protected]. -kp
