20 August, 2006
Aurelien Jarno is my hero! (New mindi-busybox package)
There was this long-standing problem with Mondo Rescue that during restore runs the virtual consoles wouldn't work on amd64. I managed to finally track this down to a rather bizarre bug in glibc.
The problem is actually fixed in glibc 2.4. When I found out that 2.4 is not going to make it into etch, I asked whether the fix could be backported to 2.3. To my total delight, this is exactly what Aurelien did! Thank you a lot, indeed! :-)
Without further ado I thus bring you mindi-busybox-1.2.1 with working virtual consoles. (The only other noteworthy change is that there is a link now from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts in the restore system to keep the new upstream busybox happy.)
Testing was done on:
The problem is actually fixed in glibc 2.4. When I found out that 2.4 is not going to make it into etch, I asked whether the fix could be backported to 2.3. To my total delight, this is exactly what Aurelien did! Thank you a lot, indeed! :-)
Without further ado I thus bring you mindi-busybox-1.2.1 with working virtual consoles. (The only other noteworthy change is that there is a link now from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts in the restore system to keep the new upstream busybox happy.)
Testing was done on:
- sid, i386, stock Debian kernel 2.6.17-2-k7 (2.6.17-6) to NFS
- sid, amd64, stock Debian kernel 2.6.16-2-k8-smp (2.6.16-17), LVM & RAID to NFS
# posted by Andree Leidenfrost @ 10:12 am 
