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On 2022-01-06 01:45, Rich Ercolani wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.33-1 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@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 -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net