[belenix-discuss] Belenix 0.6.1 fatal: /lib/libm.so.2

[Ken Jackson]

Yeah, I finally got the first one quite a while after the second.
This must be what you are referring to:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/2007-July/000080.html
| > Can you try this workaround:
| >
| >    * Boot into command line
| >    * Execute: /usr/sbin/mount -O -F lofs /lib/libc.so.2.nonsse
| > /lib/libc.so.2
| >    * Execute: svcadm clear hal
| >    * Now run startgui xfce

I'll give it a try when I get a chance.  Thanks.
-Ken Jackson


Martin Bochnig writes:
 > I sent it 40 minutes ago, but it seems that it is being held somewhere ... ?
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Martin
 > 
 > Ken Jackson wrote:
 > > I burned the Belenix 0.6.1 iso to CD and booted it.  It booted and
 > > I logged in and ran "startgui xfce" and then "startgui kde", but
 > > both failed with this message repeated twice:
 > >
 > >   ld.so.1: perl: fatal: /lib/libm.so.2: hardware capability \
 > >   unsupported: 0x1000 [ SSE2 ]
 > >   Killed
 > >
 > > Also, several utilities I ran including 'ping' and 'awk' returned
 > > the same error (but substituting the executable name for 'perl').
 > >
 > > This is on a Dell Dimension L933r, 933MHz P3 with 512MB RAM,
 > > Intel 82810E onboard graphics.
 > >
 > > Any suggestions?
 > >   
 > 
 > Hello, I didn't try Belenix for half a year and am not 100% up-to-date
 > when it comes to x86/x64.
 > But I interpret your description, as if your version of libm depends on
 > SSE2 and doesn't find native hardware support for it in your cpu (I
 > actually thought the later P6's / Coppermines had SSE2 already, don't
 > they? Or did it only come with Tualatin or afterwards PIV, while PIII
 > only has SSE1, versus MMX on P-Pro and PII?).
 > 
 > Anyways, this seems to be a known issue, I recommend you to browse the
 > mail list's archives or to google for it.
 > 
 > You also find it being mentioned on Belenix's site:
 > http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=news
 > 
 > "A solution to the Math library SSE2 issue that haunted earlier BeleniX
 > releases has been put in place. The FreeBSD math library has been
 > re-included since it does not require SSE2. However it is used only on
 > machines where the SSE2 capability is absent."
 > 
 > Hope this helps until someone from the Belenix team  comes along (and
 > gives you better details).
 > 
 > 
 > --martin
 >