On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:46:30AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2016-09-09 10:27, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > > Package: libc6-udeb > > Version: 2.13-38+deb7u10 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: breaks installation entirely > > > > The wheezy installer fails with anna reporting a segfault: > > > > ... > > anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving libc6-udeb 2.13-38+deb7u10 > > anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving finish-install 2.41wheezy1 > > anna[5033]: DEBUG: Segmentation fault > > anna[5033]: WARNING **: package retrieval failed > > kernel: [ 66.427372] wget[5382]: segfault a 0 ip 00007176c922c0ca sp > > 00007ffc8ca83890 error 6 in libresolv-2.13.so[7f76c9222000+13000] > > > > This occurs shortly after libc6-udev is downloaded, > > according to the installer interactive display. > > Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce the issue here. Given it > involves name resolving, I wouldn't be surprised it depends on the DNS > servers being used.
Seriously??? I have to use the exactly right flavour of DNS server? I think this would have been using microsoft DNS servers. I preseume you're using BIND? Could this be a locale thing? > > The core of the issue is probably screwed up libc6 versions, > > see bugs 740068, 833432 > > It indeeds looks like that, that said the build logs actually show > that debian-installer 20130613+deb7u3+b2 has been built against > glibc > 2.13-38+deb7u10, so there is no version skew in this case. > > Unfortunately, without being able to reproduce the problem, it > will be very difficult to debug it. Lovely. Thanks for bothering to reply. Vince
