Bug#1004861: libc6: dist-upgrade to stable fails kernel version checks on LXC guests
control: fixed -1 libc6/2.31-14
On 2022-02-02 15:33, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.31-13
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I tried to upgrade from old-stable to stable on an LXC guest running on
> an ASUS NAS (underlying "ADM" OS) and got blocked during preinst :
>
> Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.31-13+deb11u2_amd64.deb ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 105: [: Illegal number:
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 9: /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst:
> arithmetic expression: expecting primary: "5 * 10000 + 4 * 100 + "
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.31-13+deb11u2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> new libc6:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned
> error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.31-13+deb11u2_amd64.deb
>
> It appears a workaround is to create a fake uname script in
> /usr/local/bin that will report 5.4.0 (for instance) instead of the
> 5.4.x which is returned by uname -r in this Debian guest (why the NAS
> maintainers have such numbering of kernels... who knows).
>
> This was discussed in french on
> https://debian-facile.org/viewtopic.php?id=25401 but I though this might
> deserve a proper bug report.
>
> I guess this wouldn't be too hard to fix in the preinst script, but
> haven't checked the code.
This bug has been accidentally fixed a few months ago in testing/sid
[1]. I will see if this change can be included in a stable release.
Aurelien
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/commit/5452b62ded81132ebedf3db82577de5277479b27
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