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Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables


I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files..

I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files... I quickly realized it's due to the recent Rust Coreutils transition for Ubuntu 25.10 causing some major breakage for those relying on Makeself archives. The common denominator to these benchmarks and others having similar MD5 errors now were that they are Makeself archives for these generic Linux executables.

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