[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#902884: upowerd fails to start

[Eric Valette]

Package: upower
Version: 0.99.8-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I had no upowerd daemon running on all my boxes:

Jul 02 20:52:00 htpc1 systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 upowerd[1106]: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd: error 
while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot enable executable 
stack as shared object requires: O
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Main process exited, 
code=exited, status=127/n/a
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power 
management.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Service 
RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Scheduled restart job, 
restart counter is at 1.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 upowerd[1109]: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd: error 
while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot enable executable 
stack as shared object requires: O
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Main process exited, 
code=exited, status=127/n/a
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power 
management.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Service 
RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: upower.service: Scheduled restart job, 
restart counter is at 2.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management.
Jul 02 20:52:01 htpc1 systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
lines 1249-1287

execstack -c /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6.0.4 clear the problem.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.52 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages upower depends on:
ii  dbus               1.13.4-3
ii  libc6              2.27-3
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.56.1-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0     232-2
ii  libimobiledevice6  1.2.1~git20180302.3a37a4e-1
ii  libplist3          2.0.0-3
ii  libupower-glib3    0.99.8-1
ii  libusb-1.0-0       2:1.0.22-2
ii  udev               239-3

Versions of packages upower recommends:
ii  policykit-1  0.114-1

upower suggests no packages.

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-- eric