Verified on an AL2 instance: root@19bea50a89e2:/# uname -r 4.14.275-207.503.amzn2.x86_64 root@19bea50a89e2:/# apt install --reinstall libc6=2.31-0ubuntu9.7 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 2714 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libc6 amd64 2.31-0ubuntu9.7 [2714 kB] Fetched 2714 kB in 0s (16.7 MB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 4127 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.31-0ubuntu9.7_amd64.deb ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm li ne 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64- linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/sh are/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype ERROR: Your kernel version indicates a revision number of 255 or greater. Glibc has a number of built in assumptions that this revision number is less than 255. If you\'ve built your own kernel, please make sure that any custom version numbers are appended to the upstream kernel number with a dash or some other delimiter.
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.31-0ubuntu9.7_amd64.deb (--unpack): new libc6:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.31-0ubuntu9.7_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@19bea50a89e2:/# apt install libc-bin/focal-proposed libc6/focal-proposed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '2.31-0ubuntu9.9' (Ubuntu:20.04/focal-proposed [amd64]) for 'libc-bin' Selected version '2.31-0ubuntu9.9' (Ubuntu:20.04/focal-proposed [amd64]) for 'libc6' Suggested packages: manpages glibc-doc locales The following packages will be upgraded: libc-bin libc6 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 3356 kB of archives. After this operation, 7168 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 libc6 amd64 2.31-0ubuntu9.9 [2722 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 libc-bin amd64 2.31-0ubuntu9.9 [633 kB] Fetched 3356 kB in 0s (18.6 MB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 4981 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.31-0ubuntu9.9_amd64.deb ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm li ne 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64- linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/sh are/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) over (2.31-0ubuntu9.7) ... Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm li ne 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64- linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/sh are/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype (Reading database ... 4981 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libc-bin_2.31-0ubuntu9.9_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) over (2.31-0ubuntu9.7) ... Setting up libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) ... root@19bea50a89e2:/# exit ** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done-focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1962225 Title: preinst check that kernel revision < 255 now does more harm than good To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1962225/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
