reprepro failures due to unexpected rust-profiling-procmacros

First diagnostic

This fired on #tor-alerts on 2026-04-05 at 22:28 UTC:

SystemdFailedUnits [firing] Some systemd units are in failed state on apt.lizard

reprepro is unable to run for Tails time-based snapshots, failing with:

Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: File "pool/main/r/rust-profiling-procmacros/rust-profiling-procmacros_1.0.16-1.dsc" is already registered with different checksums!
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: md5 expected: ec65e96702dd9b308cc11c8f87cbf8bf, got: d01aa6a5d949a5e56fbcf700bc95e732
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: sha256 expected: c0ea5f15e49e363bc39c5349b6aca71962e503c5e6191bd1e86e5e1a93d04c5c, got: 52d05f7aa9616990f6473037ff8272c6243f685a6c9ca26587345dcc7549ef49
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: size expected: 2463, got: 2480
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: File "pool/main/r/rust-profiling-procmacros/rust-profiling-procmacros_1.0.16-1.debian.tar.xz" is already registered with different checksums!
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: md5 expected: 1aa09a5d684b0f233932dd02dca8035d, got: 09c55f50e6827e439db90b2da8e33a90
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: sha256 expected: 10abe5b08cf4083d196c00b54fb548c3838a6ab8e745811f898d88ec92dfda83, got: 6bba96adb637fa415d2c2d7f5dbe3f095a3b76d98a6dbad7c20e3672c25c5fa3
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: There have been errors!
See full systemd service log... 
Apr 06 05:00:01 apt systemd[1]: Starting tails-update-time-based-apt-snapshots-debian-1.service - Take time-based snapshot of debian...
Apr 06 05:20:29 apt flock[1304600]: flock: getting lock took 0.000004 seconds
Apr 06 05:20:29 apt flock[1304600]: flock: executing tails-delete-expired-apt-snapshots
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: File "pool/main/r/rust-profiling-procmacros/rust-profiling-procmacros_1.0.16-1.dsc" is already registered with different checksums!
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: md5 expected: ec65e96702dd9b308cc11c8f87cbf8bf, got: d01aa6a5d949a5e56fbcf700bc95e732
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: sha256 expected: c0ea5f15e49e363bc39c5349b6aca71962e503c5e6191bd1e86e5e1a93d04c5c, got: 52d05f7aa9616990f6473037ff8272c6243f685a6c9ca26587345dcc7549ef49
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: size expected: 2463, got: 2480
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: File "pool/main/r/rust-profiling-procmacros/rust-profiling-procmacros_1.0.16-1.debian.tar.xz" is already registered with different checksums!
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: md5 expected: 1aa09a5d684b0f233932dd02dca8035d, got: 09c55f50e6827e439db90b2da8e33a90
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: sha256 expected: 10abe5b08cf4083d196c00b54fb548c3838a6ab8e745811f898d88ec92dfda83, got: 6bba96adb637fa415d2c2d7f5dbe3f095a3b76d98a6dbad7c20e3672c25c5fa3
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: There have been errors!
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]: Calculating packages to get...
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'experimental|non-free-firmware|source' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'experimental|non-free-firmware|amd64' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'experimental|non-free|source' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'experimental|non-free|amd64' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'experimental|contrib|source' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'experimental|contrib|amd64' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'sid|non-free-firmware|source' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'sid|non-free-firmware|amd64' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'sid|non-free|source' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'sid|non-free|amd64' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372750]:   nothing new for 'sid|contrib|amd64' (use --noskipold to process anyway)
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372738]: "/usr/bin/reprepro" unexpectedly returned exit value 254 at /usr/local/bin/tails-update-time-based-apt-snapshots line 40.
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372734]: flock: getting lock took 0.000004 seconds
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt flock[1372734]: flock: executing /bin/sh
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt systemd[1]: tails-update-time-based-apt-snapshots-debian-1.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=254/n/a
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt systemd[1]: tails-update-time-based-apt-snapshots-debian-1.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt systemd[1]: Failed to start tails-update-time-based-apt-snapshots-debian-1.service - Take time-based snapshot of debian.
Apr 06 05:20:56 apt systemd[1]: tails-update-time-based-apt-snapshots-debian-1.service: Consumed 6min 13.686s CPU time, 1.2G memory peak.

Current status

Found the issue, waiting for feedback wrt. whether the proposed action is the correct one. See thread.

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Edited by zen