upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 fails with triggers looping

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 fails with triggers looping.

Related packages crashes:
dpkg: bug 1512322
systemd: bug 1742143
libvlc-bin: bug 1742146

Test Case:
1. Install 17.10.1 + all the updates
2. Install bamfdaemon, gnome-icon-theme
3. Upgrade to Bionic

Actual Result
This crash and bug 1512322

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jan 9 14:24:47 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-23 (1265 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-09 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

While upgrading a system to bionic today the failure was reported about dbus in bug 1743657.

[Bruce Pieterse (octoquad)]

I hit this bug a few minutes ago, but upgrading from the ubuntu-gnome-vanilla-desktop package in 17.10. bamfdaemon is not installed but gnome-icon-theme is.

$ apt-cache policy bamfdaemon
bamfdaemon:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.5.3+17.10.20170810-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.5.3+17.10.20170810-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
$ apt-cache policy gnome-icon-theme
gnome-icon-theme:
  Installed: 3.12.0-2
  Candidate: 3.12.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 3.12.0-2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Darin Miller (darinmiller)]

Same issue here on 3 different machines.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

I believe Critical is justified because it means a failed upgrade from a stable release.

rls-bb-incoming was added but then later removed -- so this has been triaged by Foundations?

[Darin Miller (darinmiller)]

Apologies, I posted on wrong bug report. Nix my confirmation on this bug.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I was unable to recreate this bug when upgrading from Ubuntu 17.10 to Ubuntu 18.04 today with the packages bamfdaemon and gnome-icon-theme installed.

bdmurray@clean-artful-amd64:~$ ls -lh /var/log/dist-upgrade/
total 3.0M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 2 14:51 20180402-1451
-rw------- 1 root root 449K Apr 2 14:51 apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39K Apr 2 15:03 apt.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 351K Apr 2 15:10 apt-term.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60K Apr 2 15:10 eipp.log.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67K Apr 2 15:10 history.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K Apr 2 14:51 lspci.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45K Apr 2 15:10 main.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0M Apr 2 15:13 screenlog.0
bdmurray@clean-artful-amd64:~$ grep "dpkg: cycle" /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log
bdmurray@clean-artful-amd64:~$ grep "triggers looping" /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log