Bug#1003201: libc6: Upgrading to libc 2.33-1 causes lots of strange crashes
Package: libc6
Version: 2.33-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebrain@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
(I marked this as serious because it's "just" ppc64, but the system is permaneantly unusable if this upgrade is installed.)
I booted my ppc64 VM in qemu 6.1, apt update, apt upgrade, and 20-30 packages in, it died horribly
with Python3 packages erroring out with "Cannot get content of [whatever package]".
Trying to log into a shell over ssh or at a tty after this happens dies with an error that flashes fast, but
but seems to be "free(): invalid pointer"
Random applications will now just crash out, in addition to the obvious. (I'm writing this from a session
spawned before the upgrade, which can still spawn children successfully until I log out.)
If I reboot after upgrading, all services fail to start on boot, and it never spawns a login prompt or rescue
prompt, it just sits forever on a list of failed service starts.
Anything that would be helpful to debug this? I have a snapshot of the VM before this began, so I can
just roll it back and repeat the exercise.
- Rich
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
Architecture: powerpc64 (ppc64)
Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-powerpc64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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