Public bug reported: [Impact] procps cannot be upgraded - or even reinstalled - in an LXD container. This means we cannot deliver updates (like the pending fix for LP: #1637026 in xenial-proposed) w/o putting container users in a bad state that requires a container restart to resolve.
[Test Case] $ lxc launch ubuntu:xenial procpstest Creating procpstest Starting procpstest $ lxc exec procpstest -- /bin/bash root@procpstest:~# apt --reinstall install procps Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 209 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main arm64 procps arm64 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2 [209 kB] Fetched 209 kB in 1s (113 kB/s) (Reading database ... 25398 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../procps_2%3a3.3.10-4ubuntu2_arm64.deb ... Unpacking procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2) over (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu11) ... Setting up procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Job for systemd-sysctl.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status systemd-sysctl.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript procps, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package procps (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: procps E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@procpstest:~# [Regression Risk] The proposed fix is to disable invoking the procps initscript on install/upgrade. This fix is already in yakkety, and I didn't find any bugs related to it in LP. ** Affects: procps (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Fix Released ** Affects: procps (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: High Assignee: dann frazier (dannf) Status: In Progress ** Also affects: procps (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu Xenial) Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf) ** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of नेपाली भाषा समायोजकहरुको समूह, which is subscribed to Xenial. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu 16.04 Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637300 Title: procps upgrades fail in a LXD container Status in procps package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in procps source package in Xenial: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] procps cannot be upgraded - or even reinstalled - in an LXD container. This means we cannot deliver updates (like the pending fix for LP: #1637026 in xenial-proposed) w/o putting container users in a bad state that requires a container restart to resolve. [Test Case] $ lxc launch ubuntu:xenial procpstest Creating procpstest Starting procpstest $ lxc exec procpstest -- /bin/bash root@procpstest:~# apt --reinstall install procps Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 209 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main arm64 procps arm64 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2 [209 kB] Fetched 209 kB in 1s (113 kB/s) (Reading database ... 25398 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../procps_2%3a3.3.10-4ubuntu2_arm64.deb ... Unpacking procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2) over (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu11) ... Setting up procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Job for systemd-sysctl.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status systemd-sysctl.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript procps, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package procps (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: procps E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@procpstest:~# [Regression Risk] The proposed fix is to disable invoking the procps initscript on install/upgrade. This fix is already in yakkety, and I didn't find any bugs related to it in LP. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/1637300/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators Post to : group.of.nepali.translators@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
