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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Value too large errors on debian arm image
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:13:53 -0000
--- In  "dawydiuk" <> wrote:

> > on the debian tarball 'find' is completely non functional and 
run-
> > parts used by debian during boot fails with a similar message. 
> > (during if-up and if-config from memory.)
> 
> I'm out of the office today, but if I want to try to reproduce this
> issue if I boot to the Debian tarball I pointed you to the find
> utility won't work? If you can provide any information on how to
> reproduce this I would reproduce this I would appreciate it.
>  
> > So presumably using the same compiler that TS used will not 
resolve 
> > this issue.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you are saying, can you clarify? Are
> you reporting problems with ip-up and if-config on the onboard 
flash?
> 
> > Do you think this is an bug in busybox-1.00-rc2 or should I be 
> > looking elsewhere?
> 
> I've not used the if-up and if-config scripts before so I'm not
> familiar with them. When I get into the office tommorrow I can 
take a
> look at them...
> 
> //Eddie
>

Hi Eddie,

to focus this one a bit let's drop run-parts and if-up bits , that 
just seemed to be independant corroboration of the problem with find. 

To make sure I'm not misleading you with any changes I have made 
locally to solve other issues , I did a fresh extraction of the 
following archives and tested 'find' straight away. 

I reiterate that the 7250 is loaded with 2.4.26-ts11 , fs images are 
booted over nfs.

#debian-sarge-1.12 ; installed size 194MB;
# no runparts errors but drops to single user not finding sdcard.
gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
:root# find .
.
find: .: Value too large for defined data type





#reboot to debian-sarge-256MB-05-01-2006.tar.bz2

Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/
modules.dep (No such file or directory)             
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/
modules.dep (No such file or directory)             
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/
modules.dep (No such file or directory)             
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/
modules.dep (No such file or directory)             

:root# ls /lib/modules/
2.4.26-ts10/

:root# find .
.
find: . : Value too large for defined data type


I have resolved the modules error on my test rig, that does not 
affect the find issue.


So it seems that there is an issue with find not working and since 
busybox config scripts use it they break also. Hence my conclusion 
that I can't compile busybox with the debian arm distros provided. 
This seems to affect serveral possibly all the debian sarge tarballs.


I'm a little surprised what you say about not finding a gcc that can 
compile all the system. My development machine is running Gentoo , 
which as you will be aware builds everything from scratch before you 
even get through with the install. 

In 5 or 6 years I must have been through a dozen incarnations of gcc 
from 3.4.4 to 4.2.2 now.

All were capable of rebuilding the entire system from the ground up.

The only such problem I have seen is qemu that is basically 
unmaintained on gcc 4.x

The main reasons I chose to use the debian images was because it was 
the closest to the target system and was provided by TS. It seemed 
logical that there would be less compatability issues if I used a 
debian sarge based distro and the same kernel as that target when 
building software for the board.

This would still seem a rational choice.

Please let me know if you are unable to reproduce the problem.

Thanks again.





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