Package libglib2.0-0:armhf fails to install: Exec format error

[Dale Smith]

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04

uname -a: Linux dtsmith-vallum 4.15.0-65-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 17 17:06:04 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

All updates available to date have been applied.

Command is "sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-0:armhf"

Debian team supposed to fix this bug with package version 2.54.2-5 see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885019

I am doing cross-compile work with the following compilers

arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-8 from package gcc-8-arm-linux-gnueabihf

The schemas from the native gcc-7 package are in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas.

"sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev:armhf" has the same error.

Work-around is to install libglib2.0-dev for the host. The schema files are in /usr/share/glib-2.0. I have cross-compiled syslog-ng as armhf and it works.

Here is the output of the apt install command:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,186 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 172895 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libglib2.0-0_2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) over (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libglib2.0-0_2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libglib2.0-0:armhf (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) over (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ...
Setting up libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ...
Setting up libglib2.0-0:armhf (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib2.0-0:armhf.postinst: 39: /var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib2.0-0:armhf.postinst: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas: Exec format error
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
dtsmith@dtsmith-vallum:[~]$ /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas
bash: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libglib2.0-0:armhf 2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-65.74-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-65-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 10 07:47:58 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-09 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitecture: armhf
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: glib2.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)