Bug 298120

Summary:	sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.10.907 busybox version fails to create swap area
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Tiago Cunha (RETIRED) <tcunha>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sparc, sping
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tiago Cunha (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-23 16:59:20 UTC

By using a dev-util/catalyst generated netboot image to install Gentoo on a
SPARC64 machine, I noticed that the current busybox version (1.7.4) used by genkernel can't create a swap area on a device:

BusyBox v1.7.4 (2009-12-23 16:35:12 UTC) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off
/ # fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 248 sectors, 7506 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4712 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             0      6520  15361120   83  Linux native
/dev/sda2          6520      7506   2323016   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3             0      7506  17684136    5  Whole disk
/ # mkswap /dev/sda2
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = -1916207104 bytes
/ # swapon /dev/sda2
Swap area shorter than signature indicates
swapon: /dev/sda2: Invalid argument

However, if the sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.10.907 ebuild is changed to use the latest stable busybox version (1.14.2) by modifying the VERSION_BUSYBOX variable (and adjusting the specfile accordingly), mkswap succeeds in creating the swap area.

Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2011-01-11 14:53:45 UTC

I am closing this bug because:
- The experimental version of Git seems to work well with a version of busybox newer than 1.14.2.  Please check out genkernel-99999 (five nines)
- The original reporter retired
- No one else commented or voted
- The activity log is empty

Feel free to re-open this bug.