On 5 July 2011 13:07, Johannes Schauer <j.scha...@email.de> wrote: > About a year ago, Kenneth Johansson reported [1], that trying to do a > debian debootstrap using qemu user emulation will fail due to the > following error: > > /bin/tar: ./postinst: Cannot utime: Level 2 not synchronized
This is the result of issues 1. and 2. listed by Wesley in this email: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-07/msg00313.html > Now my questions are: > > * why is this happening with mips? Because the particular bit of QEMU code which was wrongly returning the host ENOSYS rather than the guest ENOSYS happened to be MIPS-specific. > * is it a qemu bug? Yes. > * why was nobody else complaining about it, given that this is an issue > for over a year now? I imagine because not very many people use QEMU for MIPS in linux-user mode. Often with QEMU things work OK at the point they were last tested, but new guest features (like this new syscall) can cause breakage. -- PMM
