Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

[Cameron MacPherson <cameron.macpherson@gmail.com>]

i installed the b1 version of libffi8 and the illegal instruction messages are back

[   16.195961] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) at 3fffa5270970 nip 3fffa5270970 lr 3fffa526ff90 code 1 in libffi.so.8.1.0[3fffa5268000+c000]

[   16.196045] fail2ban-server[384]: code: b1090008 f9490000 4e800020 00000000 00000000 00000000 60000000 60420000

[   16.196067] fail2ban-server[384]: code: 81230000 712a0008 41820018 39230004 <7c004eee> 39230020 7c004fae 4bfffaf4

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:50 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

On 9/28/21 12:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> On 9/28/21 12:55, Cameron MacPherson wrote:
>> after building and installing it locally using your commands (i had to add
>> --no-sign to dpkg-buildpackage) it works. no illegal instructions
>
> Well, that's becoming intesting now. I'm going to have the packages rebuilt
> on the buildds now.

Can you try whether this package works?

$ wget http://incoming.ports.debian.org/libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb
$ dpkg -i libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb

For ppc64:

$ wget http://incoming.ports.debian.org/libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_ppc64.deb
$ dpkg -i libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_ppc64.deb

Although the ppc64 version was built on the same buildd as the same problematic
version while the powerpc version was now built on another buildd.

So, if the problem is fixed on powerpc now, but persists on ppc64, we might
have a culprit.

Adrian

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