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
>
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