[Bug 1878723] Re: Kernel panic when used with upstart after 0.11-4ubuntu2.1 update

[Leonard Boyce]

Sorry, I posted too soon.

Post reboot:


root at HMPBgZ:~# apt-get update
....
Fetched 51.5 kB in 1s (46.4 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root at HMPBgZ:~# apt-get upgrade
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
root at HMPBgZ:~# dpkg -s libjson-c2
Package: libjson-c2
Status: install ok half-configured
Priority: extra
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 67
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: same
Source: json-c
Version: 0.11-4ubuntu2.2
Config-Version: 0.11-4ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Description: JSON manipulation library - shared library
 This library allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C,
 output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted
 strings back into the C representation of JSON objects.
Homepage: https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
Original-Maintainer: fabien boucher <fabien.dot.boucher at gmail.com>

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Title:
  Kernel panic when used with upstart after 0.11-4ubuntu2.1 update

Status in json-c package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Installing the 0.11-4ubuntu2.1 security update on a Xenial system with
  upstart installed, the system crashes with a kernel panic.

  The error message is:

  [   99.992278] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
  [   99.992278] 
  [   99.996057] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.4.0-1105-aws #116-Ubuntu
  [   99.996057] Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.2.amazon 08/24/2006
  [   99.996057]  0000000000000086 0f10ff6977efbf32 ffff88003d45fe10 ffffffff8140926b
  [   99.996057]  ffffffff81caddf8 ffff88003d45fea8 ffff88003d45fe98 ffffffff81195a84
  [   99.996057]  ffff880000000010 ffff88003d45fea8 ffff88003d45fe40 0f10ff6977efbf32
  [   99.996057] Call Trace:
  [   99.996057]  [<ffffffff8140926b>] dump_stack+0x6d/0x92
  [   99.996057]  [<ffffffff81195a84>] panic+0xd3/0x227
  [   99.996057]  [<ffffffff81088ded>] do_exit+0xb9d/0xba0
  [   99.996057]  [<ffffffff81088e77>] do_group_exit+0x47/0xb0
  [   99.996057]  [<ffffffff81088ef4>] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20
  [   99.996057]  [<ffffffff818449db>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x22/0xcb
  [   99.996057] Kernel Offset: disabled

  Downgrading to libjson-c2_0.11-4ubuntu2 resolves the issue.

  Steps to reproduce:
  * Create a system with Xenial installed (I'm using an AWS instance with AMI ami-0f2ed58082cb08a4d)
  * Install upstart: apt-get install upstart-sysv
  * Reboot
  * Update apt and upgrade the packages: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade . This causes the kernel panic.
  * To repeat the kernel panic, run dpkg --configure -a

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