openjdk-6-jre-headless fails to install/upgrade on Via Centaur CPU

[Rachel Greenham]

Conf stage fails with segfault.

Hardy 8.04 up to date on Via Eden system. I was sent here by the crash reporter, it says it's attaching debugging info. If it doesn't; sorry for the dup. I think it's a dupe of #228069 although I'm not getting the instability in Gnome that the reporter of that bug is getting.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 15 22:49:39 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Package: openjdk-6-jre-headless None
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Title: package openjdk-6-jre-headless None failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

rachel@abatwa:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : VIA Samuel 2
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 399.000
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow up
bogomips : 801.39
clflush size : 32

This is not an i686-capable cpu, it's an i586-capable cpu. Installed off the i386 netboot installer but uname -a says:

Linux abatwa 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

(Successful install of Gentoo in the past was with CFLAGS set up to build as per i586. That was before the days of openjdk though)

That said, this install is slow but apparently stable apart from openjdk.

(I wonder might i be better off with Gentoo again on this system as I can optimise rather than choosing between linux-image-386 and linux-image-686...? Desktop does seem slower than my memory of previous installs...)

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

Just to add; switching to linux-image-386 made no difference; same
segfault error during setup of openjdk-6-jre-headless

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

the package is built with -mcpu=585 -mtune=generic, so it should run on the Via processors.