Re: [PATCH hurd] libports: use protected payloads to optimize the object lookup

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le Mon 20 Apr 2015 04:10:36 +0200, a écrit :
> Mmm, unfortunately it seems that this brings a hang inside the debian
> installer, so I'll have to revert it for our Jessie release.

Yes, this is confirmed.

An easy way to reproduce and experiment is to take the broken image I
have generated from:

http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/netinst-broken.iso

Boot it, use all the default parameters, and just after partition
reloading from the kernel (which prints the new partition layout), the
system is completely frozen.

To try to put a fixed ext2fs (e.g. from hurd or hurd-udeb package
version 1:0.5.git20150208-3):

mount netinst-broken.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt /tmp/cd
cp fixed_ext2fs.static /tmp/cd/boot/kernel/
grub-mkrescue -o /tmp/netinso.iso /tmp/cd

Samuel