placement-common dpkg error (typo: chmod != chown)

[Daniel 'f0o' Preussker]

Setting up placement-common (2.0.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0) ...
chmod: invalid mode: ‘placement:placement’
Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing package placement-common (--configure):
 installed placement-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-placement:
 python3-placement depends on placement-common (= 2.0.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0); however:
  Package placement-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3-placement (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of placement-api:
 placement-api depends on python3-placement (= 2.0.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0); however:
  Package python3-placement is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package placement-api (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
             Errors were encountered while processing:
 placement-common
 python3-placement
 placement-api
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Hi Daniel,

I haven't seen that. Is this on bionic-train? Also can you paste what you have in /var/lib/dpkg/info/placement-common.postinst?

Thanks,
Corey

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Ahh, I see the issue. This will occur if /var/lib/placement/placement.sqlite exists:

    if [ -e /var/lib/placement/placement.sqlite ];
    then
        chmod placement:placement /var/lib/placement/placement.sqlite
        chmod 640 /var/lib/placement/placement.sqlite
    fi

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Daniel, I have this fixed in the package source. As it is release day for Eoan (and Train goes through Eoan first), I think we need to treat this as an SRU. Can you work around this in the mean time?

[Daniel 'f0o' Preussker (dpreussker)]

Corey, removing the sqlite db fixes the issue, Thanks :)

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Great, thanks for letting me know. We'll likely pair this up with the first stable point release of placement if that is ok.

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

This has been fixed in Focal (Ussuri) since placement 3.0.0~b1~git2019121614.3eab6acb-0ubuntu1.

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted placement into train-proposed. The package will build now and be available in the Ubuntu Cloud Archive in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. To enable the -proposed repository:

  sudo add-apt-repository cloud-archive:train-proposed
  sudo apt-get update

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, and change the tag from verification-train-needed to verification-train-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-train-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

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

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Tested successfully:

-rw-r----- 1 placement placement 0 Dec 6 19:39 /var/lib/placement/placement.sqlite
root@b1:~# apt policy placement-common
placement-common:
  Installed: 2.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud1
  Candidate: 2.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud1 500
        500 http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/train/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@b1:~# sudo ls -al /var/lib/placement/placement.sqlite
-rw-r----- 1 placement placement 0 Dec 6 19:39 /var/lib/placement/placement.sqlite

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for placement has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. 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.

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

This bug was fixed in the package placement - 2.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud1
---------------

 placement (2.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud1) bionic-train; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Corey Bryant ]
   * d/placement-common.postinst: Fix chown typo (LP: #1848484).
   * d/gbp.conf: Create stable/train branch.
 .
   [ Chris MacNaughton ]
   * d/control: Update VCS paths for move to lp:~ubuntu-openstack-dev.
   * New stable point release for OpenStack Train (LP: #1923038).
 .
 placement (2.0.0-0ubuntu1) eoan; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release for OpenStack Train.
   * d/control: Align (Build-)Depends with upstream.
   * d/p/add-skip-locks-flag-to-mysql-migrate-db.patch: Dropped.
     Fixed in new upstream release.