[Bug 1797557] Re: Bionic updates break upgrade (apt remove libc6-armhf-cross first)

[Brian Murray]

I'm not sure I understand how people are supposed to deal with this
situation. Are they supposed to uninstall libc6-armhf-cross before
upgrading? How would they know to uninstall it?

Additionally, when you receive the following error messages its not
really clear what the way forward is.

Unpacking libc6-dev-armhf-cross (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1) over (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/Mcrt1.o.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system
                                                                                         Preparing to unpack .../libc6-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking libc6-armhf-cross (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1) over (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/ld-2.27.so.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system
                                                                                         Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Title:
  Bionic updates break upgrade (apt remove libc6-armhf-cross first)

Status in cross-toolchain-base package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As I reported in comments on the end of Bug #1769657 "update toolchain
  packages for bionic" on 5th October 2018 the updates have broken the
  ability to upgrade package(s). Specifically, the 'dpkg --unpack' stage
  breaks because, from what I can tell, some of the .dpkg-new files are
  being deleted before they are due to be renamed:

  $ sudo dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb |& tee /tmp/dpkg-unpack.log
  (Reading database ... 406492 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../libc6-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking libc6-armhf-cross (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1) over (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
   unable to open '/usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/ld-2.27.so.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb

  $ sudo dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb |& tee /tmp/dpkg-unpack.log
  (Reading database ... 406492 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../libc6-dev-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking libc6-dev-armhf-cross (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1) over (2.27-3ubuntu1cross1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
   unable to open '/usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/Mcrt1.o.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-armhf-cross_2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1_all.deb

  $ apt-cache policy libc6-armhf-cross
  libc6-armhf-cross:
    Installed: 2.27-3ubuntu1cross1
    Candidate: 2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1
    Version table:
       2.27-3ubuntu1cross1.1 500
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
   *** 2.27-3ubuntu1cross1 500
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  I've analysed both failures using a combination of 'dpkg --debug
  77777', strace, and inotifywait, but I've not familiar enough with the
  dpkg logic to determine what is going wrong.

  I'm attaching debug, strace and inotifywait logs for 'libc6-armhf-
  cross' where 'ld-2.27.so.dpkg-new' appears to be the problem.

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