bullseye build error with qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped

[hcwinsemius]

For reasons of backwards compatibility, I need to build a bespoke bullseye-based image. The build process crashes within stage0/rootfs as follows (I replaced folder names for $PIGEN):

I: Extracting zlib1g...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot "$PIGEN/pi-gen/work/raspios-bullseye-arm64/stage0/rootfs" /sbin/ldconfig
W: See $PIGEN/pi-gen/work/raspios-bullseye-arm64/stage0/rootfs/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details
rmdir: failed to remove '$PIGEN/pi-gen/work/raspios-bullseye-arm64/stage0/rootfs/debootstrap': Directory not empty
[13:34:55] bootstrap failed: please check $PIGEN/pi-gen/work/raspios-bullseye-arm64/stage0/debootstrap.log

debootstrap.log contains:

2025-03-12 13:34:51 URL:http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2_arm64.deb [88168/88168] -> "$PIGEN/pi-gen/work/raspios-bullseye-arm64/stage0/rootfs//var/cache/apt/archives/partial/zlib1g_1%3a1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2_arm64.deb" [1]
qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Further info:

• I have qemu 8.2.2 (default for current LTS of Ubuntu).
• Setting USE_QEMU=0 does not help.
• Trying to build with docker also does not help. Exactly the same error.

I saw earlier posts similar to this, but quite old and likely much outdated. Any chance you can help out?

Thanks!

[XECDesign]

I think you'd have to build natively on an arm64 machine. I can confirm I'm not having any luck on Ubuntu 24.04 either and I'm 99% certain the issue is the version of qemu.

[XECDesign]

Also, heads up we'll be dropping support for Bullseye whenever we have Trixie ready which may be as early as a few months from now.

[gxanshu]

is there any way to build raspberry pi image on x64 system for arm64 ?

i'm getting this error on build-docker.sh

arm64: ok
[15:01:09] Begin /pi-gen
[15:01:09] Begin /pi-gen/stage0
[15:01:09] Begin /pi-gen/stage0/prerun.sh
[15:01:09] End /pi-gen/stage0/prerun.sh
[15:01:09] Begin /pi-gen/stage0/00-configure-apt
[15:01:09] Begin /pi-gen/stage0/00-configure-apt/00-run.sh
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists.../bin/bash: line 7:   127 Segmentation fault      apt-get update
[15:01:14] Build failed

[XECDesign]

You'd need to experiment with building different versions of qemu-user and find one that works.