FS#31065 - [syslinux] unable to boot

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by xduugu (xduugu) - Wednesday, 08 August 2012, 18:38 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Thursday, 09 August 2012, 18:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
I can confirm Pierre's observation[1]. The latest syslinux package breaks booting at least on x86_64. It just locks up after printing the copyright.

[1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-August/023361.html

Additional info:
* syslinux 4.05-5
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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Thursday, 09 August 2012, 18:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 08 August 2012, 19:25 GMT
Removed from [testing] for the moment.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 09 August 2012, 01:21 GMT
The following patch taken from upstream [1] appears to fix the issue.

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commitdiff;h=b6be466444740a34bacd140dccbe57f6629b15bc;hp=a35dce33744f649fdbc0af0da664554cccaa8248
   PKGBUILD.diff (1.4 KiB)
   handle-ctors-dtors-via-init_a... (2 KiB)

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