Landscape Server

Upgrade with non-interactive frontend does not deal with conffile prompts & dpkg --configure -a on recover doesn't too

Bug #538206 reported by Andreas Hasenack
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Landscape Server
Invalid
Medium
Free Ekanayaka
Landscape Server 1.5.0
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-1

Bug Description

Doing a karmic -> lucid release upgrade via Landscape, got this in the /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log:
(...)
2010-03-12 15:18:33,911 DEBUG quirks: running StartUpgrade
2010-03-12 15:18:33,917 DEBUG check if patch '_usr_sbin_install-docs.268d21f1f1ed5f7a19fffef645ac4d52' needs to be applied
2010-03-12 15:18:33,918 DEBUG skipping 'README' (no '.')
2010-03-12 15:18:33,918 DEBUG check if patch '_usr_sbin_install-docs.3533d3b8e8f08f78c95550a7edcbe316' needs to be applied
2010-03-12 15:18:33,965 DEBUG killing update-notifier
2010-03-12 15:18:34,027 DEBUG killing kblueplugd kbluetooth4
2010-03-12 15:18:34,046 DEBUG killing gnome-screensaver
2010-03-12 15:18:34,062 INFO cache.commit()
2010-03-12 15:18:34,063 DEBUG failed to SystemUnLock() (E:Not locked)
2010-03-12 15:18:34,607 DEBUG doing a pty.fork()
2010-03-12 15:18:34,634 DEBUG pid is: 1309
2010-03-12 15:28:44,104 WARNING got a conffile-prompt from dpkg for file: '/etc/bash.bashrc'

That's actually the last line of that log file. In the process list it seems dpkg it stuck now:
  877 ? S 0:03 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-client --daemon --pid-file /var/run/landscape/landscape-client.pid
  879 ? S 0:05 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-broker --ignore-sigint --quiet
  880 ? S 0:05 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-monitor --ignore-sigint --quiet
  881 ? S 0:02 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-manager --ignore-sigint --quiet
 1054 ? Ssl 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-release-upgrader --quiet
 1060 ? S 0:20 \_ /usr/bin/python /var/lib/landscape/client/package/upgrade-tool/lucid --frontend DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive
 1309 pts/1 Ss+ 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/python /var/lib/landscape/client/package/upgrade-tool/lucid --frontend DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive
10051 pts/2 Ss+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --force-overwrite --force-overwrite --status-fd 25 --configure bash

Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
Changed in landscape:
milestone: none → 1.5.0
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Free Ekanayaka (free.ekanayaka)
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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :

We probably need a way to pass --force-confold to dpkg. It's what smart does.

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :
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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :

After that ctrl-c is sent due to inactivity, the tool calls a dpkg --configure -a to try to keep the system in a sane state. Another problem is that now that dpkg command is also stuck waiting for input on stdin:

  877 ? S 0:06 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-client --daemon --pid-file /var/run/landscape/landscape-client.pid
  879 ? S 0:08 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-broker --ignore-sigint --quiet
  880 ? S 0:08 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-monitor --ignore-sigint --quiet
  881 ? R 0:03 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-manager --ignore-sigint --quiet
 1054 ? Ssl 0:02 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-release-upgrader --quiet
 1060 ? S 0:21 \_ /usr/bin/python /var/lib/landscape/client/package/upgrade-tool/lucid --frontend DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive
10192 ? S 0:00 \_ dpkg --configure -a

root@karmic-vm:/var/log/dist-upgrade# strace -f -p 10192
Process 10192 attached - interrupt to quit
read(0, ^C <unfinished ...>
Process 10192 detached
root@karmic-vm:/var/log/dist-upgrade#

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Michael Vogt (mvo)
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04-beta-1
summary: - Release upgrade driven by landscape stopped at a prompt
+ Upgrade with non-interactive frontend does not deal with conffile
+ prompts & dpkg --configure -a on recover doesn't too
Changed in landscape:
status: New → Invalid
visibility: private → public
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
importance: Medium → High
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.133.2

---------------
update-manager (1:0.133.2) lucid; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive.py:
    - fix regression in conffile prompt handling (LP: #538206)
    - add default to the "NonInteractive", "DebugBrokenScripts"
      config option
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - honor "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive" in recovery mode as
      well (LP: #538206)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - ensure that gtk-qt-engine is removed on upgrade (LP: #532968)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:17:33 +0100

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Jamu Kakar (jkakar) wrote :

I've tested this in Landscape with several configuration files
changed:

- I added an alias to /etc/bash.bashrc (I believe something like
  this broke when Andreas was testing this the other day)

- I set 'fsync = off' in /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf

- I added a line to /etc/hosts.deny

- I added a line to /etc/sudoers

The upgrade worked without issues!

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