[Bug 996839] Re: conflict between inetutils-ping and iputils-ping during bootstrapping phase
Stéphane Graber
stgraber at stgraber.org
Tue May 29 20:45:27 UTC 2012
** Description changed:
when bootstrapping a Precise amd64 container the following error is displayed in the log.
"""
dpkg: regarding .../inetutils-ping_2%3a1.8-6_amd64.deb containing inetutils-ping:
inetutils-ping conflicts with ping
iputils-ping provides ping and is present and unpacked but not configured.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-ping_2%3a1.8-6_amd64.deb (--unpack):
conflicting packages - not installing inetutils-ping
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-ping_2%3a1.8-6_amd64.deb
/usr/sbin/debootstrap: 49: printf: %3a: invalid directive
"""
After retrying a couple of times bootstrapping continues and finishes
successfully. bootstrap log attached.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: lxc 0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-1.3-generic 3.4.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 8 16:19:16 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64+mac (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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[impact]
- Slows down chroot building, spam log with errors.
+ Slows down chroot building, spam log with errors and installs useless/broken packages.
- [development fix]
- The SRU is a copy of the template from development
-
- [stable fix]
- The SRU is a copy of the template from development
-
- [Test case]
+ [test case]
1) lxc-create -t ubuntu -n p1
2) grep error /var/lib/lxc/p1/rootfs/var/log/bootstrap.log
Here, 2) shouldn't return the dpkg failure listed above.
- [Regression potential]
- Unless people expected their debootstrap to take twice the usual time, I don't see any "regression" possible with just dropping inetutils-ping
+ [regression potential]
+ Unless people expected their debootstrap to take twice the usual time, I don't see any "regression" possible with clearing the list of broken packages we try (and fail) to install.
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conflict between inetutils-ping and iputils-ping during bootstrapping
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