acpi-support prevents Groovy and Hirsute booting in LXC

[Nazar]

Hi,

Installing ubuntu-desktop package in LXC containers of Groovy and Hirsute (no issues in Focal) will cause the installation process to stall for hours right after the acpi-support package with many timeout errors:

>Setting up acpi-support (0.143) ...
>Failed to restart acpid.service: Transport endpoint is not connected
>See system logs and 'systemctl status acpid.service' for details.
>invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "restart" failed.
>Failed to get properties: Transport endpoint is not connected
>dpkg: error processing package acpi-support (--configure):
>installed acpi-support package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

When the installation process eventually ended in errors, specifically at the acpid package, repetitive errors can be seen in the /var/log/syslog:

>Condition check resulted in ACPI event daemon being skipped

After forcing the LXC container to restart, it will no longer boot up normally stuck at systemd-journald using 100% CPU usage. Figured out a quick dirty fix to this is to chroot or attach to the affected container then removed the acpi-support package. Immediately after removing this acpi-support package the boot up resumes till the desktop.

I can only find one reference online: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/looking-to-install-ubuntu-desktop-on-proxmox-lxc-template-21-04.88175/

Thank you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[con (conloos)]

I can confirm that behavior on lxd 4.23. I have to mask acpid and acpi-support to install kde in a container.

[Steve Dodd (anarchetic)]

Hit the same thing trying to upgrade a focal container to jammy in systemd-nspawn :(

[con (conloos)]

So i found the source of the problem at: https://github.com/OpenNebula/one/issues/5504

Systemd disables acpid with the line: 'ConditionVirtualization=!container' since it recognizes that it is running in a container.
However, there is an error in the configuration file for acpid.path because the line is missing here. Hence the hint that the endpoint is missing.
In the acpi.path after the line: 'Description=ACPI Events Check' in the section [UNIT] ' create a new line with: 'ConditionVirtualization=!container' and then restart the unit.

So it is a problem of acpid and not acpi-support.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package acpi-support - 0.144

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acpi-support (0.144) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Use dpkg-source format 3.0 (native)
  * debian/control: Drop obsolete DM-Upload-Allowed
  * Switch to debhelper 13 (version 5 is not supported any more)
  * Do not create empty /usr/bin directory (LP: #1374981)
  * Update debian/copyright
  * Do not fail to install if restarting acpid fails (LP: #1938088)
  * Drop unsupported architectures ia64 and lpia
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.0

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:54:07 +0200