Bug#1036818: linux on armel/armhf: Perl library unable to access get CPU info from /proc/cpu or kstat

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Helge, hi Otto,

On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 09:26:06AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> Just wondering / guessing:
> 
> Are the ARM machines on ci.debian.net (ci-worker-arm??-??)
> physical machines, or are they running on qemu-user VMs?
> 
> If they run qemu, this bug report
>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024653
> might be similiar.
> 
> If so, then qemu probably needs fixing of the output of /proc/cpuinfo
> for ARM, e.g. like this:
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/e0174afeea23e56765db56fbbe465ed1fcbdd07a

The suspect is that /proc/cpuinfo is empty or not readable, and this
seems to be a problem with lxcfs after mentioning the issue today to
Paul and Jochen.

Jochen, understanding you correctly there is already an upstream fix
which is supposed to addres the issue?

Regards,
Salvatore