Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-24 Thread Philip Blundell
>IIRC it was something to do with data aborts on a 4K page boundary. Phil, >didn't you work out some scheme so that the compiler could try and make sure >this didn't happen? Of course that means fixing the compiler and re-compiling >everything with this option, which isn't very practical, but would

Re: Bug #107311 (xdm: crashes on arm and ia64 architectures on remote XDMCP connection)

2001-08-24 Thread Wookey
On Fri 24 Aug, Philip Blundell wrote: > > Basically the essence of the bug is that on my potato RiscPC connecting > >to xdm causes xdm to crash (more diagnostics available in the report). I > >was wondering if anyone either (a) has a woody version of this installed > >(if it works on all woody the

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-24 Thread Wookey
On Fri 24 Aug, Philip Blundell wrote: > >SA-110K > > Yeah, that's it. > > >Oh dear. Where do I get a more up-to-date chip (are they very expensive)? > > I'm not sure. You could ask someone like Simtec, or post on > comp.sys.acorn.hardware. The chips themselves aren't particularly > expensive,

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-24 Thread Philip Blundell
>SA-110K Yeah, that's it. >Oh dear. Where do I get a more up-to-date chip (are they very expensive)? I'm not sure. You could ask someone like Simtec, or post on comp.sys.acorn.hardware. The chips themselves aren't particularly expensive, but you will either need to buy a complete RiscPC proc

Re: Bug #107311 (xdm: crashes on arm and ia64 architectures on remote XDMCP connection)

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Amery
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Philip Blundell wrote: > I certainly used to be able to run gdm successfully on my netwinder under > potato, though I haven't tried it recently. Is this a new bug, or has it > always been there for you? > It was new about 20-odd days ago (when I reported the bug). I cert

RE: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-24 Thread David Joy
The top of the chip says this: digitalTM StrongARMTM SA-110K (c) DEC 1995 DC1035 1002945 A9632 ARM 200 Oh dear. Where do I get a more up-to-date chip (are they very expensive)? I don't have an older processor, unfortunately (I only have the computer on "permanent loan"). Many thanks, David Jo

Re: Bug #107311 (xdm: crashes on arm and ia64 architectures on remote XDMCP connection)

2001-08-24 Thread Philip Blundell
> Basically the essence of the bug is that on my potato RiscPC connecting >to xdm causes xdm to crash (more diagnostics available in the report). I >was wondering if anyone either (a) has a woody version of this installed >(if it works on all woody then the bug can be ignored from an arm point of