Bug#834844: libc6: Illegal instruction updating from 2.21-8 to 2.23-4 on mipsel
Package: libc6
Version: 2.23-4
Severity: important
On a Lemote Yeeloong machine (mipsel) with sid/unstable when I try to
update libc6 to the last version I get the following error:
Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.23-4_mipsel.deb ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
Unpacking libc6:mipsel (2.23-4) over (2.21-8) ...
dpkg: warning: subprocess old post-removal script was killed by signal
(Illegal instruction)
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.23-4_mipsel.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new post-removal script was killed by signal (Illegal
instruction)
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed pre-installation script was killed by signal
(Illegal instruction)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.23-4_mipsel.deb
uname -a:
Linux name 3.3.4 #2 Sun May 20 20:45:52 CEST 2012 mips64 GNU/Linux
Apt aborts the installation and the system keeps running.
If I force the update manually I get a broken system giving "Illegal
instruction" error for each process spawn. If I reboot I get a kernel
panic (sorry, I haven't the message but I suppose it stuck on init), I
reverted the situation mounting the disk on another machine and doing
rollback to 2.21-8.
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