apt-get update fails on ppc64le virtual machine

[Chris Ward]

I am trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 for ppc64le in a virtual machine. (The host is x86-64 running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed). The install works, but on reboot when I attempt to install updates with 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade', the update command fails with a segmentation violation. It indicates that core is dumped but I don't see a core dump in my current directory. I will add a screenshot of the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: apt 1.9.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-9.12-generic 5.4.3
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-9-generic ppc64le
.var.log.platform: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/platform'
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
Architecture: ppc64el
Date: Fri Mar 6 08:57:02 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha ppc64el (20200124)
ProcLoadAvg: 1.00 0.98 1.72 1/104 2304
ProcLocks:
 1: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 868 00:19:478 0 EOF
 2: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 832 00:19:506 0 EOF
 3: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 773 00:19:462 0 EOF
ProcSwaps:
 Filename Type Size Used Priority
 /swapfile file 969536 0 -2
ProcVersion: Linux version 5.4.0-9-generic (buildd@bos02-ppc64el-004) (gcc version 9.2.1 20191130 (Ubuntu 9.2.1-21ubuntu1)) #12-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 16 22:32:07 UTC 2019
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 1
cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 1
cpu_smt: Error: command ['ppc64_cpu', '--smt'] failed with exit code 255: Machine is not SMT capable

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Did you look in /var/crash/ ?

[Chris Ward (tjcw)]

I tried this on another x86-64 machine, and the apt-get update and apt-get upgrade commands are running normally. I will have access to the machine which failed again on Monday; I will look in /var/crash then.

[Chris Ward (tjcw)]

This didn't reproduce on the machine which initially showed the problem. So this bug can be closed 'worksforme'.