Comment 21 for bug 1749393

Focal

old

$ sudo apt install --reinstall qemu-user-static=1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 21.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 qemu-user-static amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18 [21.3 MB]
Fetched 21.3 MB in 1s (16.4 MB/s)
(Reading database ... 126154 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../qemu-user-static_1%3a4.2-3ubuntu6.18_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking qemu-user-static (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18) over (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18) ...
Setting up qemu-user-static (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

ubuntu@f-1928075-qemuuserstatic:~$ sudo chroot /home/ubuntu/bullseye-arm64 /bin/sh /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
W: Failure trying to run: /sbin/ldconfig
W: See //debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details
ubuntu@f-1928075-qemuuserstatic:~$ tail -n 2 bullseye-arm64/debootstrap/debootstrap.log
qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Upgrade

ubuntu@f-1928075-qemuuserstatic:~$ apt-cache policy qemu-user-static
qemu-user-static:
  Installed: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18
  Candidate: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.19
  Version table:
     1:4.2-3ubuntu6.19 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
 *** 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 Packages
     1:4.2-3ubuntu6 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
ubuntu@f-1928075-qemuuserstatic:~$ sudo apt install qemu-user-static
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  qemu-user-static
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 65 not upgraded.
Need to get 21.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/universe amd64 qemu-user-static amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.19 [21.3 MB]
Fetched 21.3 MB in 2s (9092 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 126160 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../qemu-user-static_1%3a4.2-3ubuntu6.19_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking qemu-user-static (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.19) over (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.18) ...
Setting up qemu-user-static (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.19) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
ubuntu@f-1928075-qemuuserstatic:~$ sudo update-binfmts --test --display qemu-aarch64
qemu-aarch64 (enabled):
     package = qemu-user-static
        type = magic
      offset = 0
       magic = \x7f\x45\x4c\x46\x02\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\xb7\x00
        mask = \xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xff\xff\xff
 interpreter = /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static
    detector =

Test with new versio

ubuntu@f-1928075-qemuuserstatic:~$ sudo chroot /home/ubuntu/bullseye-arm64 /bin/sh /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
I: Installing core packages...
W: Failure trying to run: dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.51_arm64.deb
W: See //debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details
ubuntu@f-1928075-qemuuserstatic:~$ tail -n 2 bullseye-arm64/debootstrap/debootstrap.log
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 5 package 'dpkg':
 duplicate value for 'Package' field

That is the good case and also a full run now completes.

$ sudo rm -rf bullseye-arm64; sudo qemu-debootstrap --arch=arm64 bullseye bullseye-arm64 http://ftp.debian.org/debian
I: Running command: debootstrap --arch arm64 --foreign bullseye bullseye-arm64 http://ftp.debian.org/debian
W: Cannot check Release signature; keyring file not available /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Retrieving Packages
...
I: Configuring tasksel...
I: Configuring libc-bin...
I: Base system installed successfully.

I can't run the docker test due to networking restrictions, but it was the same fault and the same fix - so that should be ok. If anyone else can test -proposed with docker please feel free to do so.