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Bug#1019556: sse3-support: version 14 fails to install where version 13 installs fine due to different binary capitalization: test-sse3 vs test-SSE3

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Axel Beckert

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Sep 11, 2022, 6:10:03 PM9/11/22
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Package: sse3-support,isa-support
Version: 14
Severity: grave
Justification: Completely fails to serve its purpose

Hi,

on my Thinkpad X250 with an "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz"
CPU, sse3-support version 14 fails to install where version 13 installs
fine, despite sse3-support's changelog entry for version 14 claims that
only the package description was changed -- which according to "git diff
debian/13..HEAD" (the "debian/14" tag seems missing) is not true as a
lot of Perl code changed as well.

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ Configuring sse3-support ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Support for sse3 required │
│ │
│ Alas, your machine doesn't support the sse3 instruction set. It is needed by software that depends on this dummy package. Sorry. │
│ │
│ Aborting installation. │
│ │
│ <Ok> │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
This machine doesn't support sse3, sorry.
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-KpVFwZ/0-sse3-support_14_amd64.deb (--unpack):
new sse3-support package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2

Additionally the package description claims "It is available on almost
any 64-bit-capable processor except for some early AMD models
(Sledgehammer and Clawhammer). This CPU is neither an AMD one nor an
early 64-bit CPU, being only about 7 years old.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/85213/intel-core-i55300u-processor-3m-cache-up-to-2-90-ghz.html
says the launch date of this CPU was Q1'15.

Full CPU details:

→ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 61
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz
stepping : 4
microcode : 0x2f
cpu MHz : 700.000
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 20
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap intel_pt xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
vmx flags : vnmi preemption_timer invvpid ept_x_only ept_ad ept_1gb flexpriority tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest ple shadow_vmcs
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs taa itlb_multihit srbds
bogomips : 4589.74
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 61
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz
stepping : 4
microcode : 0x2f
cpu MHz : 2575.752
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 2
initial apicid : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 20
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap intel_pt xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
vmx flags : vnmi preemption_timer invvpid ept_x_only ept_ad ept_1gb flexpriority tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest ple shadow_vmcs
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs taa itlb_multihit srbds
bogomips : 4589.74
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

This makes installation of libqt6webenginecore6 fail, where the the
debian/changelog entry of version 6.3.1+dfsg2-8 claims that the
maintainers added "the sse3-support dependency to libqt6webenginecore6
to ensure that x86 CPUs support SSE3 as Chromium 89+ requires it".

But chromium 105.0.5195.102-1 works totally fine on that Thinkpad, which
is another hint that sse3-support/14 isn't properly checking for sse3
support anymore but alerting without necessity.

So I digged a bit into the differences between sse3-support and
isa-support .debs of version 13 and 14. Here's what I found:

* preinst of sse3-support version 13 and 14 are identical. Especially
this line is identical:

5 FILE="/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-sse3"

* But isa-support 14 does not have such a file anymore, instead there is
now a file /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-SSE3. Note
the different capitalization.

* The same probably counts for sse4.1-support and sse4.2-support as
well:

Only in isa-support_13/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-sse3
Only in isa-support_13/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-sse4.1
Only in isa-support_13/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-sse4.2
Only in isa-support_14/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-SSE3
Only in isa-support_14/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-SSE4.1
Only in isa-support_14/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-SSE4.2

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages sse3-support depends on:
ii isa-support 14

sse3-support recommends no packages.

sse3-support suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
sse3-support/fail:

Axel Beckert

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Sep 11, 2022, 6:30:03 PM9/11/22
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Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> * preinst of sse3-support version 13 and 14 are identical. Especially
> this line is identical:
>
> 5 FILE="/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-sse3"
>
> * But isa-support 14 does not have such a file anymore, instead there is
> now a file /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-SSE3. Note
> the different capitalization.
>
> * The same probably counts for sse4.1-support and sse4.2-support as
> well:
>
> Only in isa-support_13/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-sse3
> Only in isa-support_13/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-sse4.1
> Only in isa-support_13/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-sse4.2
> Only in isa-support_14/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-SSE3
> Only in isa-support_14/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-SSE4.1
> Only in isa-support_14/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support: test-SSE4.2

On i386 this very like also affects sse2-support as that one suddenly
claims that Salsa's CI doesn't have sse2-support which now makes
Lintian's CI test "build-i386" fail:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/jobs/3221323

→ debdiff isa-support_13_i386.deb isa-support_14_i386.deb
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]

Files in second .deb but not in first
-------------------------------------
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-SSE2
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-SSE3
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-SSE4.1
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-SSE4.2

Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-sse2
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-sse3
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-sse4.1
-rwxr-xr-x root/root /usr/libexec/i386-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-sse4.2

Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
[…]

Regards, Axel
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Arthur Marsh

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Sep 11, 2022, 9:50:03 PM9/11/22
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Package: sse3-support
Followup-For: Bug #1019556

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

* What led up to the situation?

Trying to upgrade sse3-support from 13 to 14

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
* What was the outcome of this action?

failure

* What outcome did you expect instead?

success, as this CPU (Athlon II X4 640) supports sse3 indicated by the flag pni,
which stands for Prescott Native Instructions.

Please also see Debian bug #1018937 for chromium
(Update the cpu check to allow pni instead of sse3)

*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-rc4+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages sse3-support depends on:
ii isa-support 14

sse3-support recommends no packages.

sse3-support suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* sse3-support/fail:

Philipp Kolmann

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Sep 12, 2022, 2:40:03 AM9/12/22
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Hi,

I was able to get the package installed by symlinking the test-SSE3
binary to test-sse3

ln -s /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-SSE3
/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/isa-support/test-sse3

hope that helps someone else as well...

cheers
Philipp

Jedd Rashbrooke

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Sep 12, 2022, 4:40:04 AM9/12/22
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Confirming same thing on an Intel Xeon running sid and the sse3-support:13 package.

CPU info:

processor       : 7
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 158
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v6 @ 3.70GHz
stepping        : 9
microcode       : 0x84
cpu MHz         : 1300.033
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 7
initial apicid  : 7
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 22
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc
art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2
x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hw
p_act_window hwp_epp
vmx flags       : vnmi preemption_timer invvpid ept_x_only ept_ad ept_1gb flexpriority tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest ple shadow_vmcs pml ept_mode_based_exec
bugs            : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs taa itlb_multihit srbds mmio_stale_data retbleed
bogomips        : 7399.70
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