Re: Disabling VDSO
 

Yes, your current user account.

$ sudo ./maemo-scratchbox-install_5.0.sh -u `whoami`

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

Rakia, if you read here, it actually said that "Clarification needed: it's not clear to a first-timer whether this should be an existing user name from the host linux system, or a new user name for use only inside the scratchbox environment.]" on steps #3.

On step #5 it mentioned "Proceed further to run the Maemo SDK installer script. This script is run as 'user' outside the scratchbox environment. "

if in step #3 I typed:

$ sudo ./maemo-scratchbox-install_5.0.sh -u adhika

can I run step #5 as user 'adhika' as well?
what does "a user outside scratchbox environment" means?

Thank you,
Adhika

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

Yes, that will work.

A user outside scratchbox environment means a working user account on the Linux system. Usually, that means the non-root account you're using. Your current account you're logged into on the Linux system is probably suitable.

PS: the Maemo SDK documentation on wiki has been updated with clarifications regarding Linux x86-64 and disabling VDSO32. It should be easier with sysctl than editting bootloader such as GRUB(2).

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

Thanks a lot Rakia, now I can see the desktop :)

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

(Hijacking the topic)

In case you're in Scratchbox1 compiling mood, you may want to test this patch which should fix the VDSO issue once for all.

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

(Totally ontopic IMO :D)

If I understand this patches the libc6 which SB1 uses? I just checked, and my SB1 has a newer libc6 (although not as new as most recent Linux distributions), so its questionable whether it still patches and compiles clean since the patch patches a libc6 from 2005.

Does SB2 also have this issue? What is the status of SB2?

You may want to include this in the wiki.

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

Newer? It's still 2.3.2 aka ancient. Check http://www.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/da...glibc/Makefile . You're probably checking the chroot/target libc version, which should match the versions the devices use.

No AFAIK.

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

True. Do you know a way to use APT with deb-src and Scratchbox? I'm now compiling it manually, and this is getting ugly.

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

I do not know what you mean with deb-src and Scratchbox...

BTW, to use the above glibc patch you need to pull the whole sbox source (and it'll take a lot to build).

Re: Disabling VDSO
 

Yeah I tried that but I have x86-64 bit environment on this machine.

With deb-src I meant to do it in elegant way:
1) Add deb-src entry to get Scratchbox source to /etc/apt/sources.list
2) Exec apt-get -b source scratchbox (or whatever packages are required)
3) Add the patch in scratchbox-directory/debian/files
4) Build the .deb packages.

If one don't care about dirty way then only 1 person just compiles that glibc w/patch and it'd be fixed, right? Not whole scratchbox is required to be recompiled then. Only stuff which linked to glibc static.