Verified that libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1.6 can be installed fine in a bionic docker container an Amazon Linux 2 system with the problematic kernel version:
root@eef8e8932f4b:/# apt install libc6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: glibc-doc locales The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 2831 kB of archives. After this operation, 1024 B disk space will be freed. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libc6 amd64 2.27-3ubuntu1.6 [2831 kB] Fetched 2831 kB in 1s (3348 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 4140 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.27-3ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.26.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.26.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.26 /usr/share/perl/5.26 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /usr/share/perl5/Debcon f/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.6) over (2.27-3ubuntu1.5) ... Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.6) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.26.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.26.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.26 /usr/share/perl/5.26 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /usr/share/perl5/Debcon f/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1.5) ... root@eef8e8932f4b:/# uname -r 4.14.275-207.503.amzn2.x86_64 ** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic ** Tags added: verification-done-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1962225 Title: preinst check that kernel revision < 255 now does more harm than good To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1962225/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs