20.04 Focal armhf cloud-images failing to build due to running out of space

[John Chittum]

[Justification]
breaks cloud builds on armhf in focal due to changes of size of packages in the archive.

[Test plan]
Do a -proposed build of CPC images on armhf. If it succeeds, we're good.

[Where problems could occur]
Increased size of images could cause downstream problems for consumers. However, linux-firmware is not getting smaller, and images in later series already have this new size. Downstream consumers will need to adapt.

[Original report]

from the build:

Preparing to unpack .../libfreetype6_2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libfreetype6:armhf (2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package grub-common.
Preparing to unpack .../grub-common_2.04-1ubuntu26.16_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking grub-common (2.04-1ubuntu26.16) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-common_2.04-1ubuntu26.16_armhf.deb (--unpack):
 cannot copy extracted data for './usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2' to '/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously unselected package grub2-common.
Preparing to unpack .../grub2-common_2.04-1ubuntu26.16_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking grub2-common (2.04-1ubuntu26.16) ...
Selecting previously unselected package grub-efi-arm-bin.
Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi-arm-bin_2.04-1ubuntu26.16_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking grub-efi-arm-bin (2.04-1ubuntu26.16) ...
Selecting previously unselected package grub-efi-arm.
Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi-arm_2.04-1ubuntu26.16_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking grub-efi-arm (2.04-1ubuntu26.16) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-common_2.04-1ubuntu26.16_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

this started in or around February 15th

[John Chittum (jchittum)]

added `livecd-rootfs` as the image size is set there.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted livecd-rootfs into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/2.664.47 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

I checked that this is already done in Jammy, Kinetic and Lunar. It is. Does the development release task need setting to Fix Released?

[Simon Poirier (simpoir)]

indeed. the development release is already larger. Marking as fix-released

[Simon Poirier (simpoir)]

I verified the focal-proposed livecd-rootfs 2.664.47 package by building live images for armhf and amd64 and booting those images.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.664.47

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livecd-rootfs (2.664.47) focal; urgency=medium

  * disk-image-uefi: bump armhf size. (LP: #2011739)

 -- Simon Poirier <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:19:05 -0400

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for livecd-rootfs has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Simon Poirier (simpoir)]

focal daily cloud-images are building again on armhf.
see https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/focal/20230420/

Marking as fix-released.