Am 08.08.2012 20:40, schrieb Dave Reisner:

Hrmm, works for me. Semi-related note, why are we forcibly updating syslinux to the MBR on package update?

syslinux does not change the MBR on update. It only updates /boot/syslinux/ldlinux.sys and /boot/syslinux/*.c32.

Am 08.08.2012 20:56, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Hi,

just a heads up for testing users: it seems the latest syslinux package might be broken. It either frezzes right after printing the copyright line or I got some blinking garbage on the screen. (couldn't investigate; maybe I got more time tomorrow)

Greetings,

Pierre

-- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com A user have opened a bug report about this:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31065 It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it.

greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it. Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch.

I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we figure out what's broken. The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/

greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

On Aug 8, 2012 6:04 PM, "Allan McRae" wrote:

On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:

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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it. Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch.

I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we figure out what's broken. The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/

It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel

headers.

Allan

Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable.

Am 09.08.2012 03:40, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/

That patch is indeed fine; this issue seems to be due to GCC 4.7.

I tried several prereleases of syslinux 4.06 in a VM and narrowed it down the following commit which makes it work again:

Thanks for tracking this down.