** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
  ## Issue details
  
  The configuration of the kernel in linux-image-6.8.0-1008-azure is 
incompatible with the way libc6:i386 is built.
  This leads to the error "The futex facility returned an unexpected error 
code." and application crash when trying to execute many 32bit applications in 
x86-64 machines.
  
  In very short the issue is the following:
  This kernel image is compiled with CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME=n, unlike the 
vanilla Ubuntu 24.04 kernel images.
  But, the glibc / libc6:i386 distributed with Ubuntu24.04 is compiled needing 
the syscalls enabled with that option.
  i.e. **This kernel configuration is just incompatible with the provided 
glibc**
  
  In detail:
  glibc when built for 32bit, if not told which kernel is built for, will 
decide if the time_t value fits or not in a 32bit time_t, and do either the 32 
or 64bit syscall:
  
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=nptl/futex-internal.c;h=0bb1dd51f66802521afd71b9246222ed0ea0d862;hb=refs/heads/release/2.39/master#l90
  calls with no deadline fit in the 32bit version, but as the kernel does not 
provide this syscall, glibc will just get  a ENOSYS, and glibc will error out 
aborting the program
  ```
  abort (abort.c:79)
  __libc_message_impl.cold (libc_fatal.c:132)
  __libc_fatal (libc_fatal.c:141)
  futex_fatal_error (futex-internal.h:87)
  __futex_abstimed_wait_common (futex-internal.c:119)
  ```
- after printing "The futex facility returned an unexpected error code.\n": 
+ after printing "The futex facility returned an unexpected error code.\n":
  
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/nptl/futex-internal.h;h=0e87e92d15ab92f5069463719a494e97d9800431;hb=refs/heads/release/2.39/master#l87
  
  ## Expected behavior:
  
  * No crashes for 32bit applications with this kernel
  * This kernel image built with CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME=y
  
  ## Aditional info:
  
  For reference, this is the current vanilla Ubuntu 24.04 kernel for x86_64 and 
this config:
  ```
  $ uname -a
  Linux <redacted> 6.8.0-35-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 20 
15:51:52 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  $ grep CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME /boot/config-$(uname -r)
  CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME=y
  ```
  
  On the other hand this is the kernel config for this kernel image:
  ```
  Linux <> 6.8.0-1008-azure #8-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 17 10:44:55 UTC 2024 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  # CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME is not set
  ```
  
- 
  Related github issue (the issue was found in github ubuntu 24.04 runners)
  https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/9977
+ 
+ [Fix]
+ 
+ Reenable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+ See above.
+ 
+ [Where Problems Could Occur]
+ 
+ Disabling COMPAT_32BIT_TIME in Noble azure introduced a regression when
+ running armhf binaries, so the fix is not expected to break anything
+ (new).

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  Ubuntu 24.04 for Azure unable to run 32bit binaries

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