I am seeing much better stability of the Ubuntu distro today. I am working with a reinstallation from a 20.04.1 image from late August; I loaded it about a week ago hoping to recover from the 4 bugs I've been dealing with but still had problems. Today I ran Ubuntu Update AND went back to the open source nVidia driver (this is a T570 with both Intel and nVidia graphics).
I urge working with nVidia: their driver update near the end of September seemed to be the final straw in all of this, and making sure that driver is stable seems important to ensure that the installer is able to deliver a stable system. Otherwise these installation failures and stability problems may continue to haunt us. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871268 Title: Installation fails when "Install Third-Party Drivers" is selected Status in GLibC: New Status in Ubuntu CD Images: Fix Released Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in glibc package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in apt source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in glibc source package in Bionic: Invalid Status in apt source package in Focal: Triaged Status in glibc source package in Focal: Invalid Status in apt package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: [Impact] Installations that really succeeded would then fail because APT could not immediately configure a package. Which is a pointless way to fail at that point, because everything did work out anyway. So what we do is change that to a warning. [Test case] Not available right now. Issues can flare up and then disappear again. [Regression potential] It's imaginable that we missed something somewhere and some path that checked for a set error doesn't check it anymore, and we report success when we hit an error, but it seems unlikely. Behavior of --simulate changes. This used to fail before as well, and will now only produce a warning. We don't believe that is a reason of concern. [Groovy SRU] The groovy SRU is a sync of the 2.1.11 micro release from Debian unstable which also incorporates changes to the documentation: A typo fix, replacing focal with groovy in examples, and minor Dutch manual pages translation updates. We do not have test cases for the documentation changes, and we do not consider there to be a huge regression potential. As long as they build, they should be readable - maybe some words are wrong in the translation, who knows. [Original bug report] Test Case 1. Install Ubuntu Desktop on hardware with an nVidia card and select to install 3rd party drivers 2. Proceed with installation The following error message is displayed in /var/log/syslog /plugininstall.py: Verifying downloads ... /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/gcc_9.3.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb: "Version: '9.3.0-1ubuntu2' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxcrypt/libcrypt-dev_4.4.10-10ubuntu4_amd64.deb: "Version: '4.4.10-10ubuntu4' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/g++_9.3.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb: "Version: '9.3.0-1ubuntu2' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxau/libxau6_1.0.9-0ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.0.9-0ubuntu1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxdmcp/libxdmcp6_1.1.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.1.3-0ubuntu1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-6_1.6.9-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.6.9-2ubuntu1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxext/libxext6_1.3.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.3.4-0ubuntu1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/l/lm-sensors/libsensors5_3.6.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '3.6.0-2ubuntu1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-xcb1_1.6.9-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.6.9-2ubuntu1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxdamage/libxdamage1_1.1.5-1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.1.5-1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxfixes/libxfixes3_5.0.3-1_i386.deb: "Version: '5.0.3-1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxxf86vm/libxxf86vm1_1.1.4-1build1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.1.4-1build1' not found." /plugininstall.py: Downloads verified successfully ubiquity: Error in function: install /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation: /plugininstall.py: apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not configure 'libc6:i386'. , E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgcc-s1:i386'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) /plugininstall.py: ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: ubiquity 20.04.9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu22 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.442 Date: Mon Apr 6 20:17:07 2020 InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200402) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_EC.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=es_EC.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8 SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/1871268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
