[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#1065135: sort: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.3

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey.


On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 20:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Thanks for this report.

Another case:
Removing libreadline8:amd64 (8.2-3+b1) ...
awk: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
awk: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Selecting previously unselected package libreadline8t64:amd64.


Not sure,... shall I report distinct bugs for each of them?


> This is definitely not the behavior we want.  However, the good thing
> is
> that the dependency from coreutils to libssl is new since bookworm. 
> As a
> result, while this can affect users on upgrades from testing, it will
> not
> affect upgrades from bookworm because libssl3t64 will be unpacked and
> configured before the coreutils that uses it.

So at least for this case, only people tracking testing/unstable may be
screwed ;-) ... that is of course only *if* any such error would ever
cause any kind of "corruptions".


> Can you explain why 'sort' is being called at this point in your
> upgrade? 
> Is this from an apt hook or something?

Hard to say... at that point in the upgrade output, are there any APT
hooks running at all? Or is it just DPKG hooks?

In the other case with libpam where runuser failed, it was likely
/usr/share/debian-security-support/check-support-status.hook
as Sam Hartman had pointed out.

TBH, I'm not sure whether I know all places from where DPKG may load
hooks or trigger or the likes.

I looked now at:
$ ls -1 /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/
debian-security-support
needrestart

But none of them seems to call sort or awk, at least not directly nor
the script they're executing (I haven't gone any deeper into debconf or
so).

These are the triggers, right?
$ ls -1 /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/
File
Lock
Unincorp
aspell-autobuildhash
ispell-autobuildhash
ldconfig
resolvconf-enable-updates
resolvconf-event
rkhunter-propupd
rkhunter-update-database
texmf-format
texmf-hyphen
texmf-map
twisted-plugins-cache
update-ca-certificates
update-ca-certificates-fresh
update-ca-certificates-java
update-ca-certificates-java-fresh
update-default-ispell
update-default-wordlist
update-initramfs
update-openoffice-dicts
update-sgmlcatalog

But AFAIU the actual code that is executed for the trigger, is in the
postinst of that package, right?
If so,... could be any of them, where sort/awk get called.

Cheers,
Chris.