i ran apt install --reinstall libffi8, restarted the system and the following messages reappeared
[ 16.874069] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) at 3fff7ef95970 nip 3fff7ef95970 lr 3fff7ef94f90 code 1 in libffi.so.8.1.0[3fff7ef8d000+c000] [ 16.874154] fail2ban-server[384]: code: b1090008 f9490000 4e800020 00000000 00000000 00000000 60000000 60420000 [ 16.874176] fail2ban-server[384]: code: 81230000 712a0008 41820018 39230004 <7c004eee> 39230020 7c004fae 4bfffaf4 after rm -rf ~/libffi, git clone, autogen, this time i ran ./configure with --disable-exec-static-tramp and then copied the new libffi.so.8 to /usr/lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/ once again restarted the system and no more messages on the console or in the logs about libfffi # ls -l libffi* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 28 01:22 libffi.so -> libffi.so.8.1.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 20 2021 libffi.so.7 -> libffi.so.7.1.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68696 Feb 20 2021 libffi.so.7.1.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 24 00:00 libffi.so.8 -> libffi.so.8.1.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78152 Sep 28 01:47 libffi.so.8.1.0 september 28th is the one i just compiled replacing the one contained in the libff8 package. i dont know the standard way of verifying which library is being used. On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:40 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/28/21 10:33, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > after ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make i then copied the new > > libffi.so.8.1.0 from ~/libffi/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/.libs to > > /usr/lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu and that solved it. no more illegal > > instruction messages > > Did you verify that it is actually using the proper version? > > You need to make sure 100% that this version fixes it while the > libffi.so.8.1.0 from the Debian package causes the crash. > > Also, can you check whether passing "--disable-exec-static-tramp" > makes a difference? > > We need to find out why the Debian package causes SIGILL and we > still don't know why. It gets particularly strange when the issue > cannot be reproduced with the upstream source. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > >
