Comment 4 for bug 947888

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:11:39AM -0000, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> Image creation tested: Nano (Precise/armhf)
> Host: Ubuntu Precise (up-to-date, 64bits)
> OK = image created successfully
> NOK = qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped

> Results:
> qemu-user-static_1.0.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb -> OK
> qemu-user-static_1.0.50-2012.02-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb -> NOK
> qemu-user-static_1.0.50-2012.02-0ubuntu1~ppa10.04.1_amd64.deb -> NOK
> qemu-user-static_1.0.50-2012.02-0ubuntu1~ppa10.10.1_amd64.deb -> NOK
> qemu-user-static_1.0.50-2012.02-0ubuntu1~ppa11.04.1_amd64.deb -> NOK
> qemu-user-static_1.0.50-2012.02-0ubuntu1~ppa11.10.1_amd64.deb -> NOK

Ah, so it's pretty clearly something specific to the qemu-linaro (source or
packaging), and not to the precise build environment.

I guess this was working until recently, right? Do you know what the last
version of the qemu-linaro package was that worked correctly? For instance,
the last upload before 1.0.50-2012.02-0ubuntu1, 1.0.50-2012.01-0ubuntu4,
introduced a behavior change to fix bug #906922 that's known to have a risk
of regression. So I think the two most likely causes for this problem are
that patch, or something new in the 2012.02 upstream version.