Re: Re: Segmentation fault in root for debian lenny

Hi Antonio,

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Antonio Amorim <Antonio.Amorim_at_sim.fc.ul.pt> wrote:
> Dear Kevin,
> I am running my our own version of Debian that we call PAIPIX. Please see
> http://mirror.sim.ul.pt . Before sending the message, I have checked that
> the same happened with the official debian 5.18.

OK. It might have avoided some confusion if you had mentioned this in the first email.

> I have found out that the problem resulted from using the kvm (version
> 72+dfsg-1.2) virtual environment. Once installed in the computer everything
> is running fine both for the official 5.18 as to our 5.21.06. This was ok
> for etch but somehow it does not work for lenny.

I see. Good that you found the source of the problem, that's very helpful. I'd recommend you to file a bug report (severity no higher than "important") against kvm in Debian, giving full details of exactly what goes wrong and how to reproduce the problem [1]. Unfortunately I suspect whatever is going wrong is probably sufficiently complicated that it will be very hard to track down, so I don't make any promises that Debian folks will be able to fix it soon.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

best regards,

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