/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1: invalid ELF header

[Daniel Manrique]

This was reported on a power8 system (ppc64el arch).

The system was deployed from MAAS 1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1 and is running Ubuntu 14.04.2 on ppc64le arch.

14:37 < roadmr> leftyfb: can you apt-get install xsltproc
14:37 < roadmr> leftyfb: then run "xsltproc --dumpextensions" ?
14:38 < leftyfb> ubuntu@powereight:~$ xsltproc --dumpextensions
14:38 < leftyfb> xsltproc: error while loading shared libraries:
                 /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1: invalid ELF

That's a minimal reproduction case with xsltproc. The original report was filed on another application which links against libxslt.so.1 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox/+bug/1449176).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

please install the 'debsums' package and check that the file on disk has not been corrupted with 'debsums -s libxslt1'. This problem is not reproducible here with the trusty version of the libxslt1.1 package (1.1.28-2build1).

[Mike Rushton (leftyfb)]

ubuntu@powereight:~$ debsums -s libxslt1
debsums: package libxslt1 is not installed

ubuntu@powereight:~$ debsums -s libxslt1.1
debsums: changed file /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libexslt.so.0.8.17 (from libxslt1.1:ppc64el package)
debsums: changed file /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1.1.28 (from libxslt1.1:ppc64el package)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

If the files in a package are correct debsums should report that they are OK. Perhaps, try reinstalling the package via 'apt-get install --reinstall libxslt1.1'

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Mike reported that this was gone after a reinstall. It looks like some corruption happens at some point, and intermittently. I'll set this to invalid as it looks like libxslt is not to blame.

Thanks for the help figuring this out, Steve and Brian!