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

[Andrew McDermott]

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@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.
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After this operation, 885 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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(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']

[Edward Vielmetti (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

[Bob stoutenburgh (bobstout)]

Made multiple correction attempts based on other reports. Cannot replace dpkg or clear fault. Spamassassin (in our case) will not install. Expect many other have this problem but do not know it yet