Re: Hybrid armhf/arm64 system
Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_arm <at> chezphil.org> writes:
> Do you think it makes sense to use testing?
I'm trying it out...
The arm64 stuff seems OK so far e.g. abiword, which I mentioned
before, installs and runs OK.
Firefox didn't work for me though, so I tried to install the armhf
version. This almost left me in a "OMG will I have to start again
from scrath???" situation. Eventually I realised that
- Installing firefox-esr:armhf requires libshout3:armhf.
(You should be able to reproduce this just by doing "apt-get
install libshout3:armhf").
- Something about /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libshout.so.3
causes ldconfig to segfault. (Try "strace ldconfig".)
- Since many apt actions eventually cause ldconfig to be run,
this means that most apt-get invokations fail to work even if
they are unrelated to these packages or armhf at all.
- "dpkg --remove libshout3:armhf" removes it successfully,
after which apt starts to work again. Phew!
I hope there isn't too much more of this lurking... so:
* Is there is bug in libshout3 and/or ldconfig here?
* Anyone have any experience with "fiesystem rollback" to
recover for "I wish I hadn't done that" situations like this?
* Any thoughts about the current state of web browsers on
arm64 and/or armhf? Currently I have unaccelerated X, but
the binary-blob Mali drivers are due "real soon now"...
Cheers, Phil.
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