I've just installed a new system with 1.4.2, and installed
a freshly compiled kernel (a GENERIC variant, stripping out
some of the unneeded pseudo-devices). COMPAT_LINUX is there
as is EXEC_ELF32. I've installed all the /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/suse_*
packages. 

But I'm having two problems which seems to be related to
unimplemented system calls.  I can't even run the Linux bash
(/emul/linux/bin/bash), which it smells really fishy! It dumps core
due to a `Bad system call':

    fifty:/emul/linux/bin[21](2)$ ../usr/bin/lddlibc5 ./bash
	    libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x480d4000)
	    libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4811d000)
	    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x48120000)
	    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x480b9000)
    fifty:/emul/linux/bin[22](2)$ ./bash
    Bad system call
    fifty:/emul/linux/bin[23](2)$ 

Here's the end of the ktrace of the execution:

    9805 bash     RET   getuid 1859/0x743
    9805 bash     CALL  #164 (unimplemented setresuid)
    9805 bash     PSIG  SIGSYS SIG_DFL
    9805 bash     NAMI  "bash.core"

Now I *know* this works: I've a nearly identical system at home,
which runs this with no problem.

Since one of my goals for this system is to run VisualAge for Java
for Linux, I gave it a try. Running it produces a bunch of warnings:

    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    Warning: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues
    X Error: BadColor (invalid Colormap parameter)

and then a core dump. A kdump shows a similar happening:

    1078 ide      CALL  read(0x7,0xbfbfcdd4,0x20)
    1078 ide      RET   read 32/0x20
    1078 ide      CALL  pipe(0xbfbfcf6c)
    1078 ide      RET   pipe 0
    1078 ide      CALL  #120 (unimplemented clone)
    1078 ide      PSIG  SIGSYS SIG_DFL
    1078 ide      NAMI  "ide.core"

Am I missing something? In the meantime I'll see if these on my
working home. Should I not be using the suse_linux-6.3 package?
(Some of the FAQs and compat_linux(8) page imply that 6.1 is
better).

Help?

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