Package: tar
Version: 1.28-2.2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Dear Maintainer,
upgrading tar breaks apt-get/dpkg due to "illegal instruction" errors.
* What led up to the situation?
tar was upgraded: tar (1.28-2.1 => 1.28-2.2)
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
apt-get dist-upgrade
* What was the outcome of this action?
All packages upgraded after tar failed during unpack:
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar was killed by signal (Illegal instruction)
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/libssl1.0.2_1.0.2h-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar was killed by signal (Illegal instruction)
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/ntp_1%3a4.2.8p7+dfsg-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar was killed by signal (Illegal instruction)
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/libselinux1_2.5-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libssl1.0.2_1.0.2h-1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/ntp_1%3a4.2.8p7+dfsg-3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libselinux1_2.5-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
* What outcome did you expect instead?
All package upgrades should have succeeded.
I could temporarily resolve the problem by copying the previous tar
version from another box.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.52-3
ii libc6 2.22-7
ii libselinux1 2.5-2
tar recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tar suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
pn ncompress <none>
pn tar-scripts <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
-- no debconf information
