Re: emulators/suse100_base on NetBSD-5/amd64 broken?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:26:39AM +0200, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> I recently started to use amd64 on some new machines, and had problems  
> with the emulators/suse100_base + suse100_compat packages. The reason  
> for using these are for our NetBackup client software...
> I has worked fine on i386 for years, but now, then using amd64 is  
> fails...
>
> # uname -a
> NetBSD localhost.localdomain 5.0_RC4 NetBSD 5.0_RC4 (GENERIC) #0: Wed  
> Apr 15 00:11:21 UTC 2009  builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/ 
> netbsd-5-0-RC4/amd64/200904142015Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-RC4/ 
> src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
>
> # pkg_info | grep suse
> suse_base-10.0nb5   Linux compatibility package
> suse_compat-10.0nb3 Linux compatibility package with old shared  
> libraries
>
> # sysctl emul.linux.kern.osrelease
> emul.linux.kern.osrelease: 2.4.18
>
> # chroot /emul/linux /bin/bash
> bash-3.00# ls
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> bash-3.00# exit

As a data point, this works for me on NetBSD-5.99.11/amd64.

> I spoke with manu%netbsd.org@localhost, who wrote the LINUX_COMPAT/amd64,
> and he said that I should use emul.linux.kern.osrelease = 2.6.11 or  
> later for Linux/amd64 libc to load.
> (btw. I can't find that documented either...)
>
> So I gave that a try as well...
>
> # sysctl -w emul.linux.kern.osrelease=2.6.11
> emul.linux.kern.osrelease: 2.4.18 -> 2.6.11
>
> # chroot /emul/linux /bin/bash
> [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) chroot /emul/linux /bin/bash
>
> And that seemed to perform even worse...

Works for me as well.
 Thomas