arm64: not able to install linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge/bionic-proposed

Bug #1823994 reported by Patricia Domingues
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Andy Whitcroft
Bionic
New
Undecided
Unassigned
linux-hwe-edge (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Bionic
Fix Committed
Undecided
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Bug Description

1. linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge from bionic-updates is installed:
`linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 4.18.0.16.65 arm64 [installed]`

```
$ dpkg -l |grep linux-generic
ii linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge 4.18.0.16.65 arm64 Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
```

2. enable -proposed archive and update:
```
$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ $(lsb_release -sc)-proposed main restricted"
$ sudo apt update
```

3. shows it is upgradable:
```
$ apt search --names-only linux-generic
linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge/bionic-proposed 5.0.0.8.66 arm64 [upgradable from: 4.18.0.16.65]
  Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
```

4. try to install it, but:
```
$ sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge : Depends: linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge (= 5.0.0.8.66) but 4.18.0.16.65 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
```

5. same happens trying to install `linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge`:
```
$ sudo apt install linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge : Depends: linux-image-5.0.0-8-generic but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
```

6. also not able to install `linux-image-5.0.0-8-generic`:
```
$ sudo apt install linux-image-5.0.0-8-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-image-5.0.0-8-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'linux-image-5.0.0-8-generic' has no installation candidate
```

more info:

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04

~$ apt-cache policy linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge
linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge:
  Installed: 4.18.0.16.65
  Candidate: 5.0.0.8.66
  Version table:
     5.0.0.8.66 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-proposed/main arm64 Packages
 *** 4.18.0.16.65 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-updates/main arm64 Packages
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-security/main arm64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Tags: disco
affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)
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dann frazier (dannf) wrote :

It appears that linux-signed-hwe-edge does not yet have the arm64 support we added to linux-signed.

summary: - not able to install linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge/bionic-proposed
+ arm64: not able to install linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge/bionic-proposed
Revision history for this message
Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote : Missing required logs.

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. While running an Ubuntu kernel (not a mainline or third-party kernel) please enter the following command in a terminal window:

apport-collect 1823994

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
tags: added: disco
Revision history for this message
Patricia Domingues (patriciasd) wrote :

adding 'lspci -vnvn' output and
```
$ cat /proc/version_signature
Ubuntu 4.15.0-47.50-generic 4.15.18
```

Revision history for this message
dann frazier (dannf) wrote :

I have a fix staged for this, but it relies on published signed binaries that aren't present.

<apw> dannf, ok the signing component appears in rejected ...
<apw> will try and get to the bottom of why that happened

So assigning to apw for now...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw)
status: In Progress → Confirmed
Changed in linux-hwe-edge (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) wrote :

I am still seeing this issue on ARM64 nodes for the SRU triggered yesterday:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge : Depends: linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge (= 5.0.0.13.69) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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