Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:46:30AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2016-09-09 10:27, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> >
> > Package: libc6-udeb
> > Version: 2.13-38+deb7u10
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: breaks installation entirely
> >
> > The wheezy installer fails with anna reporting a segfault:
> >
> > ...
> > anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving libc6-udeb 2.13-38+deb7u10
> > anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving finish-install 2.41wheezy1
> > anna[5033]: DEBUG: Segmentation fault
> > anna[5033]: WARNING **: package retrieval failed
> > kernel: [ 66.427372] wget[5382]: segfault a 0 ip 00007176c922c0ca sp 00007ffc8ca83890 error 6 in libresolv-2.13.so[7f76c9222000+13000]
> >
> > This occurs shortly after libc6-udev is downloaded,
> > according to the installer interactive display.
>
> Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce the issue here. Given it
> involves name resolving, I wouldn't be surprised it depends on the DNS
> servers being used.
Seriously??? I have to use the exactly right flavour of DNS server?
I think this would have been using microsoft DNS servers.
I preseume you're using BIND?
Could this be a locale thing?
> > The core of the issue is probably screwed up libc6 versions,
> > see bugs 740068, 833432
>
> It indeeds looks like that, that said the build logs actually show
> that debian-installer 20130613+deb7u3+b2 has been built against
> glibc
> 2.13-38+deb7u10, so there is no version skew in this case.
>
> Unfortunately, without being able to reproduce the problem, it
> will be very difficult to debug it.
Lovely. Thanks for bothering to reply.
Vince
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