[Bug 2078720] [NEW] Upgrading from jammy to noble results in a linux-headers package being in a broken state

[Ankush Pathak]

Public bug reported:

Now that 24.04.1 has been released, 22.04 users are encouraged to upgrade to 24.04 via the `do-release-upgrade` command. This issue was seen whilst testing this upgrade path.
Upgrading and later rebooting a jammy GCP instance results in `linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp` being a broken state.

```
$ sudo apt install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp : Depends: linux-gcp-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1025 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
```
`linux-gcp-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1025` is a dependency of `linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp` which is also not removed during the upgrade.

```
$ apt-cache rdepends linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp
linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp
Reverse Depends:
  linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
$ apt-cache rdepends linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
Reverse Depends:
```

This issue was also observed after upgrading a jammy AWS instance to
noble.

```
$ sudo apt install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-6.5.0-1024-aws : Depends: linux-aws-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1024 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
```

** Affects: linux-aws (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: linux-aws (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Description changed:

- Now that 24.04.1 has been released, 22.04 users are encouraged to
- upgrade to 24.04 via the `do-release-upgrade` command. This issue was
- seen whilst testing this upgrade path.
- 
- Once the upgrade completes and the instance is rebooted `linux-
- headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp` is in a broken state.
+ Now that 24.04.1 has been released, 22.04 users are encouraged to upgrade to 24.04 via the `do-release-upgrade` command. This issue was seen whilst testing this upgrade path.
+ Upgrading and later rebooting a jammy GCP instance results in `linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp` being a broken state.
  
  ```
  $ sudo apt install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
-  linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp : Depends: linux-gcp-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1025 but it is not installable
+  linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp : Depends: linux-gcp-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1025 but it is not installable
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  ```
  `linux-gcp-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1025` is a dependency of `linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp` which is also not removed during the upgrade.
  
  ```
  $ apt-cache rdepends linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  Reverse Depends:
-   linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
+   linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  $ apt-cache rdepends linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  Reverse Depends:
  ```
  
- 
- This issue was also observed after upgrading a jammy AWS instance to noble.
+ This issue was also observed after upgrading a jammy AWS instance to
+ noble.
  
  ```
  $ sudo apt install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
-  linux-headers-6.5.0-1024-aws : Depends: linux-aws-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1024 but it is not installable
+  linux-headers-6.5.0-1024-aws : Depends: linux-aws-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1024 but it is not installable
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  ```

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Title:
  Upgrading from jammy to noble results in a linux-headers package being
  in a broken state

Status in linux-aws package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux-gcp package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Now that 24.04.1 has been released, 22.04 users are encouraged to upgrade to 24.04 via the `do-release-upgrade` command. This issue was seen whilst testing this upgrade path.
  Upgrading and later rebooting a jammy GCP instance results in `linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp` being a broken state.

  ```
  $ sudo apt install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp : Depends: linux-gcp-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1025 but it is not installable
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  ```
  `linux-gcp-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1025` is a dependency of `linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp` which is also not removed during the upgrade.

  ```
  $ apt-cache rdepends linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  Reverse Depends:
    linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  $ apt-cache rdepends linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  linux-image-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  Reverse Depends:
  ```

  This issue was also observed after upgrading a jammy AWS instance to
  noble.

  ```
  $ sudo apt install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   linux-headers-6.5.0-1024-aws : Depends: linux-aws-6.5-headers-6.5.0-1024 but it is not installable
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  ```

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