debxo 0.3 release

[Luke Faraone]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 15:04, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:42:17PM -0500, luke at laptop.org wrote:
> > On 2008-11-17, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I believe you can resolve these warnings by running the locale-gen
> > > utility.
> >
> > I had already run that, and the discouraging results pasted in the top
> > of the pastebin.
>
> The error message and its location in the source [1]:
>
>  /* Map the header and all the administration data structures.  */
>  p = mmap64 (NULL, total, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
>  if (p == MAP_FAILED)
>    {
>      int errval = errno;
>      unlink (fname);
>      error (EXIT_FAILURE, errval, _("cannot map archive header"));
>    }
>
> ... suggest that the problem is that localegen is trying to do a shared
> writeable mmap.  These do not work on jffs2 [2].
>
> I don't know the best way to proceed, but it would appear we need to
> raise the issue with upstream.  It will not be fixed in jffs2.
>
> That said, I am running debxo 0.3 base and not seeing the same error
> messages.  (I see that the locale is set to "POSIX" immediately after
> installation.)


This is very odd.

I do not experience this problem right after install, but only after
updating, locale is set to a new version, which may be when this bug is
introduced.

-lf
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