[Bug 1303139] Re: Kernel panic when dpkg attempts to install libc6

[Steve Langasek]

Any crasher bug in upstart is a very serious problem which we take
seriously.  While the issue is resolved for you (since the upgrade is
now over), it's important that we find out the cause of the crash on
your system, so that it doesn't happen to others.

I understand that you don't have any crash files in /var/crash for this.
That's strange, and I'm not sure why that's the case.  But there are a
few other things we can look at to try to reproduce the problem.

Assuming you were upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 using update-manager,
you should have log files in /var/log/dist-upgrade.  Can you please
attach the apt.log. apt-term.log, and term.log from this directory?

There have not been other mentions of this bug being seen when upgrading
to upstart 1.12, so it is clearly not trivial to reproduce.  It may help
in reproducing this bug to have a complete copy of your upstart
configuration.  Can you tar up the contents of your /etc/init directory
(tar zcvf ~/upstart-configs.tgz /etc/init) and attach the resulting
tarball?

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Title:
   Kernel panic when dpkg attempts to install libc6

Status in Upstart:
  New
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This bug was first described in bug #1269405 , bug #1269483 , bug #1269500 , and bug #1269669.
  It affects users trying to install/upgrade libc6 using dpkg, and in my case occurred during an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04.

  bug #1271440 describes a similar problem, where the package is not
  libc6, but libselinux.

  A workaround for the issue is described in
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1269731/comments/32
  . It involves temporarily redirecting calls to telinit to /bin/true.

  This is an umbrella ticket filed just to get the bug reopened. Please
  see the other tickets for details, attachments, screenshots etc.

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