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

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Tuesday, August 01 2023, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:

> 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)

Yes, absolutely, I was already planning to ping Simon about it tomorrow
(it's late here so I'm going to be now), should have mentioned that in
my initial email.  Thanks, Michael.

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Sergio
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