Bug#902851: libc-bin: ldd stopped working with 32-bit binaries on amd64 machine

["Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru>]

On 02/07/18 23:24, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> I am not able to reproduce the issue. That said for it to work you need
> to have a 32-bit dynamic linker installed. It can be provided by either
> libc6-i386 or libc6:i386. Is it installed on your system?

Debian testing, with the issue:

bash$ apt-cache policy libc6-i386 libc6:i386
libc6-i386:
  Installed: 2.27-3
  Candidate: 2.27-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.27-3 500
        300 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24-11+deb9u3 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
     2.24-11+deb9u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
libc6:i386:
  Installed: 2.27-3
  Candidate: 2.27-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.27-3 500
        300 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid/main i386 Packages
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24-11+deb9u3 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
     2.24-11+deb9u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main i386 Packages

Debian stable, everything works here:

bash$ apt-cache policy libc6-i386 libc6:i386
libc6-i386:
  Installed: 2.24-11+deb9u3
  Candidate: 2.24-11+deb9u3
  Version table:
 *** 2.24-11+deb9u3 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24-11+deb9u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
libc6:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:


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Alexandra N. Kossovsky
OKTET Labs (http://www.oktetlabs.ru/)