Termux-packages: [MSM8916 devices] illegal instruction when using openssl-dependent utilities

[SoumyadeepChatterjee96]

I had a phone lying around and suddenly i planned to install Termux and use this one as a dedicated Node-red server as its pretty handy to run it on something like this.
I installed Termux and then went ahead to install Openssh and could install it but when I try to start the server it returned with 'Illegal Instruction' and out of frustration I uninstalled Termux.
When I reinstalled Termux I couldn't install anything from the repo as all gave me the output as

'Reading package lists... Done
E: Method https has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process https received signal 4.
E: Method /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/apt/methods/https did not start correctly
E: Failed to fetch https://termux.net/dists/stable/InRelease
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.'

Help me solve this PLEASE! Newbie for the environment.

[afifah32]

Reading package lists... Done
E: Method https has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process https received signal 4.
E: Method /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/apt/methods/https did not start correctly
E: Failed to fetch https://termux.net/dists/stable/InRelease
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.😢😢😭

[SoumyadeepChatterjee96]

@afifah32 you having the same issue? which android version are you on and what's your processor?

[afifah32]

@soumyadeepchatterje96 OPPO A37😪😪

[SoumyadeepChatterjee96]

@afifah32 I have the same SOC. But there's this Galaxy j5 that have the same thing and it never returned with the issue.

[fornwall]

Hello! Could those of you affected by this issues try out this:

wget http://termux.net/issue_3872_openssl_1.1.1c_aarch64.deb
dpkg -i issue_3872_openssl_1.1.1c_aarch64.deb

and see if that solves the issue? That version of the package was built with https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/openssl/+/7a0cd2ac47950d221483b9dfef214e85c916d586 applied.

[Grimler91]

@SoumyadeepChatterjee96 @afifah32 does the openssl version fornwall shared above fix the issue?

[xeffyr]

@deoryus seems like your downloaded file is corrupted.

Its SHA-256 should be:

9074190a06d27ecf03d8cd3ac8252dcf04cad4fd7c1399ddc25f1ecf6454353c  issue_3872_openssl_1.1.1c_aarch64.deb

And if file is okay, it will be installed correctly:

[~]:$ wget http://termux.net/issue_3872_openssl_1.1.1c_aarch64.deb
Connecting to termux.net (104.18.36.234:80)
issue_3872_openssl_1 100% |********************************|  887k  0:00:00 ETA
[~]:$ dpkg -i issue_3872_openssl_1.1.1c_aarch64.deb 
(Reading database ... 488 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack issue_3872_openssl_1.1.1c_aarch64.deb ...
Unpacking openssl (1.1.1c) over (1.1.1c) ...
Setting up openssl (1.1.1c) ...
[~]:$

[deoryus]

@xeffyr it installed successfully but issue remain still.

openssl still return illegal instruction

[fdciabdul]

still 0% working :')

[miniact]

What's the solution then?

[xeffyr]

There currently no solution as this is ROM/kernel bug.

[miniact]

😢😢😥😭

[fornwall]

@miniact @fdciabdul @deoryus @SoumyadeepChatterjee96 (or any else affected):

Can you test the latest openssl update and see if that fixes the problem? Run the following commands:

busybox wget http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-aarch64/openssl_1.1.1c-1_aarch64.deb
dpkg -i openssl_1.1.1c-1_aarch64.deb

and then try e.g. pkg up to see if it works.

[fdciabdul]

Yap it's working again now , thankyou

[fornwall]

@fdciabdul Great, thanks a lot for the help!

[daling]

@miniact @fdciabdul @deoryus @SoumyadeepChatterjee96 (or any else affected):

Can you test the latest openssl update and see if that fixes the problem? Run the following commands:

busybox wget http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-aarch64/openssl_1.1.1c-1_aarch64.deb
dpkg -i openssl_1.1.1c-1_aarch64.deb

and then try e.g. pkg up to see if it works.

It worked for me, but please note that the link to the .deb file can change. Look for the current correct filename on http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-aarch64/ and change your command accordingly.

[darthwalsh]

@fornwall Should this issue stay open until the workaround isn't needed? I installed Termux on my chromebook today and ran into the same problem. (Or, maybe the fix hasn't been released yet? I am on verision 0.86.)

BTW, if anybody is looking for the workaround and you get an error like:

$ dpkg -i openssl_1.1.1d-2_aarch64.deb
dpkg: error processing archive openssl_1.1.1d-2_aarch64.deb (--install):
 package architecture (aarch64) does not match system (i686)

Then like it says you should change the installation URL to http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-i686/openssl_1.1.1d-2_i686.deb

[Grimler91]

@darthwalsh this issue has been fixed so you are probably encountering some other similar issue. Please open a new issue here at github and provide the information in the bug report template.

[xeffyr]

@Grimler91 Fix available only for ARM as we didn't know that it happens for i686 too (openssl in i686 virtual device works fine without problems like in this issue).