Packages may get installed multiple times in case one fails to install
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landscape Client |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Björn Tillenius | ||
| landscape-client (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| Trusty |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
If a package activity wants to install 2 packages, where the second package fails to install due to some error, the first one will be installed multiple times.
This is because there's code that aims at retrying when the dpkg lock can't be obtained, but in reality the code catches any error, even SystemError which is most likely a permanent error that won't be resolved by retrying.
Here is an extract of dpkg.log from a machine where this happened:
$ grep ' install' dpkg.log | grep nova-compute
2015-04-14 14:24:24 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:24:36 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:24:36 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:25:43 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:25:43 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:25:43 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:26:49 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:26:49 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:26:49 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:27:56 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:27:56 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:27:56 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:29:03 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:29:04 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:29:04 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:30:05 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:30:05 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:30:05 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:31:17 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:31:17 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:31:17 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:32:23 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:32:23 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:32:23 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:33:30 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:33:30 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:33:30 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:34:39 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:34:39 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:34:39 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:35:47 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:35:47 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:35:47 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:36:58 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:36:58 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:36:58 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:38:06 status installed nova-compute-
2015-04-14 14:38:06 status installed nova-compute:all 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2
2015-04-14 14:38:06 status installed nova-compute-
And here is an extract from package-
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 11 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 10 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 9 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 8 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 7 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 6 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 5 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 4 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 3 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 2 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 1 retries remaining.
package-
process might be in use. Retrying package changes. 0 retries remaining.
Related branches
- Chad Smith: Approve
- Alberto Donato (community): Approve
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Diff: 82 lines (+30/-13)2 files modifiedlandscape/package/facade.py (+6/-2)
landscape/package/tests/test_facade.py (+24/-11)
| Changed in landscape-client: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| importance: | Undecided → Critical |
| assignee: | nobody → Björn Tillenius (bjornt) |
| Changed in landscape-client: | |
| milestone: | none → 15.06 |
| Changed in landscape-client: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
