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

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: linux-aws (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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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:
  Confirmed
Status in linux-gcp package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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:
  ```

  Running `apt --fix-broken install` resolves the error.
  ```
  $ sudo apt --fix-broken install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  After this operation, 27.9 MB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  (Reading database ... 83770 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing linux-headers-6.5.0-1025-gcp (6.5.0-1025.27~22.04.1) ...
  $ sudo apt install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  ```

  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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