after running the commands you listed i repeated my process with the new libffi.so.8 from v3.4.2 vs HEAD and there is no change. both of them work. i am using gcc 11.2.0-7
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 2:07 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cameron! > > On 9/28/21 10:59, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > 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 > > OK, this sounds like a good verification. Thanks for testing this for me. > > Can you make another check and try the v3.4.2 upstream tag? > > $ make clean > $ git clean -df > $ git checkout v3.4.2 > $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make > > and try again? Maybe the issue was fixed between v3.4.2 and HEAD. > > > 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. > > You can verify the library being using with the `ldd` command. > > For example: > > $ ldd `which python2.7` > > So, my next guess is that there is something wrong with the Debian source > package. Maybe it's actually not version 3.4.2 that is being used. > > 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 > >

