Mantic QEMU, segfault in nested VMs and autopkgtest.u.c

Wed Aug 2 01:58:12 UTC 2023

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 13:30, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a heads up that the QEMU package on Mantic is currently affected by
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/2016252.  This about
> using QEMU in a nested VM environment, and as such is impacting dep8
> tests that make use of such feature (systemd tests come to mind, but
> there are other packages affected like QEMU itself).
>
> If you see a failure in a dep8 test and it's a QEMU segfault, be aware.
> This is actually a glibc regression that hasn't yet been fixed upstream.
> I'm following the discussion there and plan to backport the patch ASAP
> (unfortunately it's not part of glibc 2.38 either).
>

Can you coordinate that with the impending upload of 2.38 please? (Hi Simon)

Cheers,
mwh
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