[Bug 1442064] Re: /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault (arm64)

[Edward Vielmetti]

I did an "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" on a multiprocessor
xenial amd64 machine, and was not able to replicate this bug.

Linux armv8hello.local.lan 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 7
10:19:14 UTC 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 16.04

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Title:
  /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault (arm64)

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I did a fresh install of a trusty cloud image to an applied micro
  X-Gene today and post the installation (and login) I did:

   apt-get update
   apt-get dist-upgrade

  and noticed the following:

  ubuntu at linaro-test:devstack$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    acl cpu-checker fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core
    hicolor-icon-theme ipxe-qemu libaio1 libasound2 libasound2-data libasyncns0
    libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libblas3 libbluetooth3 libbrlapi0.6 libcaca0
    libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfdt1
    libflac8 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
    libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa
    libgraphite2-3 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libharfbuzz0b
    libjasper1 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libjs-jquery libjs-underscore
    liblinear-tools liblinear1 liblua5.2-0 libogg0 libpango-1.0-0
    libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libpulse0
    libsdl1.2debian libsndfile1 libsubunit-perl libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5
    libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libusbredirparser1 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libx11-xcb1
    libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-render0
    libxcb-shm0 libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3
    libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxxf86vm1
    python-cairo python-extras python-fixtures python-gobject-2 python-mimeparse
    python-testtools qemu-system-common
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    python-gobject-2
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/145 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 885 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
  (Reading database ... 54957 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../python-gobject-2_2.28.6-12build1_arm64.deb ...
  Unpacking python-gobject-2 (2.28.6-12build1) over (2.28.6-12build1) ...
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.7
  Uname: Linux 3.19.3 aarch64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: arm64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Thu Apr  9 10:16:06 2015
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: dist-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.update.motd.d.91.release.upgrade: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade']

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