[OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - don't update OI

[Toomas Soome]

> On 25. Jul 2021, at 12:04, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
> 
> Please let also the openindiana-discuss list know when the real 2.37 binutils is safe and included; some of us don't subscribe to the oi-dev list.
> 
> I'd also admit to some curiosity what the problem with 2.37 was, once that's understood.
> 
> Not to mention whether there's anything that one can do at the "ok" prompt when something like that happens. Booting the optical media image and activating a good BE saved me, but it'd be nice to know all my options.


gptzfsboot(5), loader(5). 

it does start with boot(1M), kernel(1M), installboot(1M), but there is first bug - installboot should also refer to gptzfsboot(5) and loader(5).

This issue about binutils 2.37 is about the linker set feature; the Xcommand_set and Xficl_compile_set functions are dropped by gld 2.37 and resulting sets are empty - so builtin C functions are not available. This issue is only affecting BIOS loader, UEFI loader is ok.

rgds,
toomas


> 
>> On Jul 24, 2021, at 16:08, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> It is now safe again to update.
>> 
>> I had to revert the binutils-2.37 update and instead created a fake 2.37
>> package version that delivers the older 2.36.1 version.
>> With that I have re-published the latest illumos-gate packages and
>> successfully installed them on my machines.
>> Thanks to Toomas Soome for helping me and analyzing the problem.
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>> Am 7/24/21 um 9:55 AM schrieb Andreas Wacknitz:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> something bad has happened with the last updates and rendered two of my
>>> build servers unbootable. They are both stuck in the boot loader ("start
>>> not found") such that
>>> booting with an old BE won't fix that!
>>> 
>>> SO DON'T UPDATE YOUR SYSTEMS FOR NOW!
>>> 
>>> I fear that my update of binutils-2.37 may be the culprit.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Andreas
>>> 
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