Author: Didier Kryn Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade borked with eudev
Le 11/05/2021 à 06:57, Brad Campbell via Dng a écrit : > G'day all,
>
> I use a self-compiled kernel (v5.10) at the moment.
> An Ascii to Beowulf upgrade died early on because the eudev preinst
> script isn't correctly parsing /proc/kallsyms.
>
> Preparing to unpack .../25-eudev_3.2.9-8~beowulf1_amd64.deb ...
> Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in
> the running kernel:
>
> - inotify(2) (CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER)
> - signalfd(2) (CONFIG_SIGNALFD)
> - accept4(2)
> - open_by_handle_at(2) (CONFIG_FHANDLE)
> - timerfd_create(2) (CONFIG_TIMERFD)
> - epoll_create(2) (CONFIG_EPOLL)
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-PJCPSM/25-eudev_3.2.9-8~beowulf1_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
> new eudev package pre-installation script subprocess returned error
> exit status 1
>
> root@bkmac:/tmp/temp# needed_symbols='inotify_init signalfd accept4
> open_by_handle_at timerfd_create epoll_create'
>
> root@bkmac:/tmp/temp# for symbol in $needed_symbols; do echo $symbol ;
> egrep "^[a-fA-F0-9]+ T \.?sys_${symbol}$" /proc/kallsyms ; done
> inotify_init
> signalfd
> accept4
> open_by_handle_at
> timerfd_create
> epoll_create
>
> root@bkmac:/tmp/temp# for symbol in $needed_symbols; do echo $symbol ;
> egrep "^[a-fA-F0-9]+ T __x64.sys_${symbol}$" /proc/kallsyms ; done
> inotify_init
> ffffffff811ac000 T __x64_sys_inotify_init
> signalfd
> ffffffff811af380 T __x64_sys_signalfd
> accept4
> ffffffff813df4a0 T __x64_sys_accept4
> open_by_handle_at
> ffffffff811d3410 T __x64_sys_open_by_handle_at
> timerfd_create
> ffffffff811b00c0 T __x64_sys_timerfd_create
> epoll_create
> ffffffff811ad9b0 T __x64_sys_epoll_create
>
> I unpacked, patched out the check and re-packed the deb, then manually
> installed it.
> Unfortunately for me (yay) the upgrade then proceeded to break
> horribly with an apt-get -f install resulting it in wanting to
> uninstall X and everything associated with it, requiring severe manual
> intervention to get a functioning system again.
>
> root@bkmac:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> cups-daemon : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.2.10-6+deb10u4) but
> 2.2.1-8+deb9u6 is installed
> cups-ipp-utils : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.2.10-6+deb10u4) but
> 2.2.1-8+deb9u6 is installed
> libcupsimage2 : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.2.10-6+deb10u4) but
> 2.2.1-8+deb9u6 is installed
> libeudev-dev : Depends: libeudev1 (= 3.2.2-13) but 3.2.9-8~beowulf1
> is installed
> libreoffice-java-common : Depends: libreoffice-common (=
> 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u7) but 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u11 is installed
> libreoffice-style-colibre : Depends: libreoffice-common (=
> 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u7) but 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u11 is installed
> libusb-1.0-0-dev : Depends: libusb-1.0-0 (= 2:1.0.22-2) but
> 2:1.0.21-1 is installed
> python3-distutils : Depends: python3 (>= 3.7.1-1~) but 3.5.3-1 is
> installed
> python3-lib2to3 : Depends: python3 (>= 3.7.1-1~) but 3.5.3-1 is
> installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages
> (or specify a solution).
>
> I got there, but there was a lot of manual dpkg -i from the cache
> directory to get things back on track.
>
> Just a headsup.
>
> Brad
Hello Brad.
I'd bet you disabled - or failed to enable - one of the mentionned
kernel features during the config phase of your kernel build. So it
would just be a matter of carefully configuring your kernel build, not
reusing an old config file.