Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-30 Thread Wookey
On Wed 29 Aug, Ben Dooks wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:15:43AM +0100, 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 > > I

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-29 Thread Ben Dooks
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:15:43AM +0100, 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 I know Simtec can do this, now have a new Intel Stron

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-28 Thread Philip Blundell
I've added code to the installer to detect broken strongarms and print some kind of suitable warning. This will be in the next version of the boot-floppies for both potato and woody, whenever those get built. Does anybody have a short precis of the issues that we could put on an explanatory we

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: 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: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-24 Thread David Joy
thanks, David Joy. (BTW, what's the problem with the old StrongARMs? It used to run Red Hat ARM Linux ages ago fairly reliably...) -Original Message- From: Philip Blundell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 2001 22:48 To: David Joy Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: d

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-23 Thread Philip Blundell
>Processor : Intel StrongARM-110 rev 2 (v41) >Hardware : Acorn RiscPC That's one of the old 200MHz revision K chips, isn't it? If so, that probably explains the trouble you are having. Those parts aren't capable of running Unix reliably: you will need to upgrade to a rev S (or later

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-23 Thread David Joy
bject: Re: dpkg hangs with large debs What revision of StrongARM chip do you have? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-23 Thread David Joy
n-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dpkg hangs with large debs What revision of StrongARM chip do you have? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-23 Thread Philip Blundell
What revision of StrongARM chip do you have? p.

dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-23 Thread David Joy
I have just installed Debian (now Woody, upgraded from Potato). (Acorn riscpc, 32MB, 10GB, SA110). Unfortunately dpkg seems to be semi-broken; it crashes whenever I try to install a large deb like xserver-xfree86 or xfonts-base. Then the console freezes completely and won't die until I kill the log