Subject: Re: [UBUNTU] linaro-media-create failing
From: Loïc Minier <[email-masked]>
To: Frederik Lotter <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:18:53 +0200

Hi

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, Frederik Lotter wrote:
> We have several people here in the support office trying to build an
> sdcard using the latest hwpack and root filesystem files as found
> here:
> http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-n/ubuntu/leb-panda/latest/
> We are running into a segfualt in /usr/bin/dpkg during what seems to
> be the hwpack installation.
> 
> Please find the log attached.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 What's your QEMU version (qemu-arm-static)?  Old versions of QEMU have
 bugs and limitations in their emulation of ARM instructions which might
 cause weird failures such as segfaults when installing the hwpack.

 We recommend using the latest version of Linaro QEMU, which should be
 available for Ubuntu at:
    https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools

 Using a very recent upstream QEMU version would also help emulation.

 If that doesn't help, please report a bug or ask for input on a
 technical forum, such as [email-masked] or IRC etc.

 Ideally, we would detect broken QEMU versions when running
 linaro-media-create, but it's non-trivial and a low priority feature,
 so it didn't get implemented so far.

   Thanks!
-- 
Loïc Minier