[Bug 1687791] Re: Install of kdump-tools fails

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

Adding initramfs-tools and nominating for bionic.

** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Install of kdump-tools fails

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When installing Ubuntu xenial via netimage, installation fails because
  of an error, when configuring the kdump-tools. /var/log/syslog says:

  ...

  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Setting up grub2 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.9) ...^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Setting up lxc-common (2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2) ...^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Running in chroot, ignoring request.^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of reload.^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Setting up grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.7) ...^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ...^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu17) ...^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target: Errors were encountered while processing:^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target:  kdump-tools^M
  May  2 22:15:17 in-target:  linux-crashdump^M
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target: Setting up kdump-tools (1:1.5.9-5ubuntu0.4) ...
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target: dpkg: error processing package kdump-tools (--configure):
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target:  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-crashdump:
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target:  linux-crashdump depends on kdump-tools; however:
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target:   Package kdump-tools is not configured yet.
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target: 
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target: dpkg: error processing package linux-crashdump (--configure):
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target:  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target: Errors were encountered while processing:
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target:  kdump-tools
  May  2 22:15:18 in-target:  linux-crashdump
  May  2 22:15:18 main-menu[616]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 100
  May  2 22:15:18 main-menu[616]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed.

  
  After this the 'Select and install software' dialog pops up and says, that 'Installation step failed'. If one presses '<Continue>', one gets bombed back into the 'Ubuntu installer main menu'.
  Now you get into a loop, when choosing the 'Select and install software' item from the menu.

  Installer image is 'Linux foo 4.4.0-62-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan
  18 14:10:15 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux'.

  The only workaround found so far is:
      cp -p /target/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdump-tools.postinst \
          /target/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdump-tools.postinst.suck
      printf '#!/bin/sh\nexit 0\n' \
          >/target/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdump-tools.postinst

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