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  • Re: Failures attempting to install in an LDOM

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Peter Tribble on Mon Jun 10 18:00:02 2024
    Hi Peter,

    On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 15:37 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
    I finally got round to trying to install debian-sparc in an LDOM on my T4 server.

    Sadly, this didn't work.

    With Debian 12, software installation fails. I see

    Jun 10 08:43:02 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies: Jun 10 08:43:03 in-target:  console-setup-linux : Depends: keyboard-configuration (= 1.220) but 1.227 is installed

    along with some unrelated dpkg-deb segfaults. Ignoring that, the bootloader won't install.

    With Debian 10, it appears that software installation succeeds, but again
    the bootloader fails to install.

    Is there a known-to-work set of instructions available that would get me closer to a working install?

    Which image did you use? You might have caught a broken image.

    The problem with Debian Ports is that the images are generated from Debian unstable,
    so there is always a chance of downloading an image that is broken.

    This one should work:

    https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-11-17/debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso

    Adrian

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Peter Tribble on Tue Jun 11 12:00:01 2024
    Hi Peter,

    On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 10:52 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
    Sadly, that one fails as well.

    OK, then my memory was incorrect.

    I had repeated unpack failures - debootstrap really doesn't like unpacking util-linux. And software
    installation eventually failed with

    Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: Errors were encountered while processing:
    Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap:  vim-tiny
    Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vim-tiny:
    Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap:  vim-tiny depends on vim-common (= 2:9.0.2087-1); however:
    Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap:   Versio
    Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: n of vim-common on system is 2:9.0.2103-1.

    Yeah, that's a common problems and occurs whenever vim fails to build on sparc64,
    I have explained the reason behind this here:

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html

    However, the very latest snapshot from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-02-25/
    does install successfully:

    $ uname -a
    Linux debian-sparc 6.8.12-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.8.12-1 (2024-05-31) sparc64 GNU/Linux

    That's great to hear. I hope the Linux LDOM will enable you fix some SPARC-related upstream bugs ;-).

    Let me know if you have any more questions, I'm happy to help!

    Adrian

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