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  1. Bug #587186
  2. Comment #72

Comment 72 for bug 587186

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote : Re: [Bug 587186] Re: libc6 upgrade fails: illegal instruction

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> Verification for Lucid
>
> I've verified update-manager 1:0.142.21 in maverick-proposed and it failed for 2 reasons:
> 1. The function _test_and_fail_on_non_i686 is called in the wrong quirk handler (lucidPostInitialUpdate instead of maverickPostInitialUpdate)
> 2. in _test_and_fail_on_non_i686 the test self.arch == "i386" always fails because self.arch ends with a new line (output of dpkg --print-architecture). This is a bug in update-manager.
>
> With those 2 fixes the upgrade is aborted as expected.

It should be noted that upgrades from Lucid to LTS+1 also need to be handled.