Bus error on alpha doing env-update during stage 3

jtdenison

I booted from a cd and have followed the instructions for stage 3 installation. Everything has gone well until I get to the step where you issue the env-update command. The system beeps and comes back with a "Bus error" message. I tried issueing the next command source /etc/profile and it comes back with the same message. This system previously ran Redhat just fine.
Alpha 500mhz
512 MB RAM
9 GB SCSI
Intel Pro NIC
3Com NIC

Rukicc · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 19

Hi,

Did you solve the problem?
If yes... then HOW

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Kloeri · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 144

I'd be interested in knowing whether glibc is compiled with nptl and/or nptlonly USE flags.

On 2.6 kernels I'd recommend using "+nptl +nptlonly" and 2.4 kernels will obviously not use nptl as it's only supported on 2.6

If you use "+nptl -nptlonly" on 2.6 systems you're quite likely to run into semi-random segfaults etc. as documented in alpha glibc+nptl-nptlonly and sandbox cause programs to segfault + various posts to mailinglists.