[debian-devel:13355] Re: Arm bf problems - termwrap and null strings

[Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

佐野＠浜松です。

debian-boot@lists.debian.org より。

「termwrap って何 ? 必要なの ?」という質問です。
誰か答えてあげてください。

In <Marcel-1.50-1205170827-868h+Ty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
  on "Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:08:27 +0000 (GMT)',
   with "Arm bf problems - termwrap and null strings",
 Wookey <wookey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> さん wrote:

> Hello people,
> 
> I've got some Arm boot-floppies (from CVS about 10 days ago ~ 2.2.19) which
> nearly work. I've fixed a couple of problems and I'll post diffs here when I
> get a set that work.
> 
> Current problems are:
> 1) inittab.install in root/bin is the one that gets put in /etc for the
> second-stage install. This runs dpkg-reconfigure with /sbin/termwrap. This
> doesn't work on arm. the problem seems to be that termwrap needs a file
> called /etc/environment, and that isn't present in root/bin or base.tgz. I've
> worked around it by simply removing this from the inittab, and things seem
> to still work, but I'm not suer what termwrap does, and thus how important it
> is, or where it comes from and thus what I should do to boot-floppies to make
> it create a satisfactory root/bin and base. So, what is termwrap - do I need
> it, where does it comes from, why it its environment file missing...
> 
> 2) dbootstrap falls over trying to set the hostname. If you kill it (so it
> restarts) then it continues but /etc/hostname ends up being "(null)" 9which
> caues more problems later), so I suspect a similar problem to the one below
> but haven't gone into the detail yet - that's next to investigate, straight
> after this mail. I just wonder if this is a prob others found which is now
> fixed in CVS?
> 
> Fixed problems are: in utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c. dbootsrap bombs out
> with a segfault when you select 'make drive bootable'. This is because
> 'Arch2' is null for arm when it gets tested to see if it is 'acorn' or
> 'netwinder' in order to decide which message explaining why this option is
> pointless to print :-). (not sure why it segfaults rather than justs prints
> neither message). This is fixed in utilities/dbootstrap/main.c in
> (get_arm_model which needs 
>     if (!strcmp(buf, "acorn-", 6)) {
> changing to 
>     if (!strncasecmp(buf, "acorn-", 6)) {
> 
> Also I note this prob always occurs if you use bootconfig_test as the
> get_arm_model fn in main is not available. This must also
> be true for get_alpha_model which was already in bootconfig.c for the
> _TESTING_ case, presumably someone else's optimistic attempt to get it to
> work :-)
> 
> Wookey
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