log flood when installing acpid and acpi-support inside a 22.04 container

[Simon Déziel]

# Steps to reproduce

1) Create a Jammy container
lxc launch ubuntu:22.04 jammy-ctn
2) Install acpid and acpi-support in the container
lxc exec jammy-ctn -- apt-get update
lxc exec jammy-ctn -- apt-get install -Vy acpid acpi-support
3) Check the logs while apt is stalled at "Setting up acpi-support"
lxc exec jammy-ctn -- journalctl -fu acpid.service

3) will show a huge flood of:

Jun 07 23:42:50 jammy-ctn systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in ACPI event daemon being skipped.

A workaround is to empty /etc/acpi/events with:

lxc exec jammy-ctn -- sh -c 'mv /etc/acpi/events/* /tmp/'

# Initial analysis

The acpid.service unit contains `ConditionVirtualization=!container` but something keeps asking systemd to start the acpid service which is not possible due to the unmet condition (!container).

The acpid.path unit contains `DirectoryNotEmpty=/etc/acpi/events/` meaning that it uses inotify to trigger the acpid.service which is probably what's causing the endless loop.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[brian mullan (bmullan)]

This bug affects all 22.04 LXD Container configuration for me.

[brian mullan (bmullan)]

Additional Log info from my LXD ubuntu 22.04 container

$ lxc exec cn1 bash

root@cn1:~# apt-get install -Vy acpid acpi-support

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
   libfreetype6 (2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1)
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
   libiw30 (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4)
   wireless-tools (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4)
Recommended packages:
   toshset
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   acpi-support (0.144)
   acpid (1:2.0.33-1ubuntu1)
   libiw30 (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4)
   wireless-tools (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4)
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 174 kB of archives.
After this operation, 588 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 acpid amd64 1:2.0.33-1ubuntu1 [35.8 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 acpi-support amd64 0.144 [9954 B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libiw30 amd64 30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4 [18.5 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 wireless-tools amd64 30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4 [110 kB]
Fetched 174 kB in 1s (238 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package acpid.
(Reading database ... 33820 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../acpid_1%3a2.0.33-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking acpid (1:2.0.33-1ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package acpi-support.
Preparing to unpack .../acpi-support_0.144_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking acpi-support (0.144) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libiw30:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libiw30_30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libiw30:amd64 (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4) ...
Selecting previously unselected package wireless-tools.
Preparing to unpack .../wireless-tools_30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking wireless-tools (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4) ...
Setting up acpid (1:2.0.33-1ubuntu1) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/acpid.socket → /lib/systemd/system/acpid.socket.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/paths.target.wants/acpid.path → /lib/systemd/system/acpid.path.
Setting up libiw30:amd64 (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4) ...
Setting up acpi-support (0.144) ...
Failed to restart acpid.service: Transport endpoint is not connected
See system logs and 'systemctl status acpid.service' for details.
Failed to get properties: Transport endpoint is not connected
Setting up wireless-tools (30~pre9-13.1ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Error: Timeout was reached