[Bug 1129402] Re: makedev installation fails in linux-vserver

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Title:
  makedev installation fails in linux-vserver

Status in makedev package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After upgrading a server, which is running in a linux-vserver
  container on kernel 2.6.32-5-vserver-amd64, from Ubuntu 12.04 to
  12.10, I'm having problems with the "makedev" package: Because
  containers do not have permission to change host console devices, the
  installation fails and the package stays in a "not fully installed"
  state. This, in turn, causes the "ubuntu-minimal" package installation
  to fail.

  The package cannot be removed, because other packages such as
  "upstart" depend on it. Therefore, makedev should either be
  uninstallable or ignore permission errors when being installed in a
  vserver.

  
  Output of apt-get install:

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  2 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
  Setting up makedev (2.3.1-91ubuntu2) ...
  mknod: `mem-': Operation not permitted
  makedev mem c 1 1 root kmem 0640: failed
  mknod: `kmem-': Operation not permitted
  makedev kmem c 1 2 root kmem 0640: failed
  mknod: `null-': Operation not permitted
  makedev null c 1 3 root root 0666: failed
  mknod: `port-': Operation not permitted
  makedev port c 1 4 root kmem 0640: failed
  mknod: `zero-': Operation not permitted
  makedev zero c 1 5 root root 0666: failed
  mknod: `full-': Operation not permitted
  makedev full c 1 7 root root 0666: failed
  mknod: `random-': Operation not permitted
  makedev random c 1 8 root root 0666: failed
  mknod: `urandom-': Operation not permitted
  makedev urandom c 1 9 root root 0666: failed
  mknod: `tty-': Operation not permitted
  makedev tty c 5 0 root tty 0666: failed
  mknod: `ram0-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram0 b 1 0 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram1-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram1 b 1 1 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram2-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram2 b 1 2 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram3-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram3 b 1 3 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram4-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram4 b 1 4 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram5-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram5 b 1 5 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram6-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram6 b 1 6 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram7-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram7 b 1 7 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram8-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram8 b 1 8 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram9-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram9 b 1 9 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram10-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram10 b 1 10 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram11-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram11 b 1 11 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram12-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram12 b 1 12 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram13-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram13 b 1 13 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram14-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram14 b 1 14 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram15-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram15 b 1 15 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `ram16-': Operation not permitted
  makedev ram16 b 1 16 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop0-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop0 b 7 0 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop1-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop1 b 7 1 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop2-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop2 b 7 2 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop3-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop3 b 7 3 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop4-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop4 b 7 4 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop5-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop5 b 7 5 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop6-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop6 b 7 6 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `loop7-': Operation not permitted
  makedev loop7 b 7 7 root disk 0660: failed
  mknod: `tty0-': Operation not permitted
  makedev tty0 c 4 0 root tty 0600: failed
  mknod: `console-': Operation not permitted
  makedev console c 5 1 root tty 0600: failed
  /sbin/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "tty0"
  dpkg: error processing makedev (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-minimal:
   ubuntu-minimal depends on makedev; however:
    Package makedev is not configured yet.

  dpkg: error processing ubuntu-minimal (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   makedev
   ubuntu-minimal
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  
  Output of apt-get remove:

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   logrotate : Depends: cron or
                        anacron but it is not going to be installed or
                        fcron but it is not installable
   upstart : Depends: initscripts
             Depends: mountall
             Depends: ifupdown (>= 0.6.10ubuntu5)
  E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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