Re: Bug#1003201: libc6: Upgrading to libc 2.33-1 causes lots of strange crashes
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On 2022-01-06 01:45, Rich Ercolani wrote:
> 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 have added the powerpc list in Cc: as the ppc64 porters are the people
who can help you there.
> 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]".
Is it a VM running with KVM or is it using QEMU emulation?
> 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.
Ideally a backtrace would help, dmesg outputs can also be useful,
however given the state of you system, they might be difficult to get.
Regards,
Aurelien
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