Comment 0 for bug 2067120

I'm finding it impossible to retrace any crashes with the version of apport packaged in noble or with upstream commit id adfe3698731b69b0f19ca36ecca90d8e96001250.

The retracing process ends with the following lines:

Extracting downloaded debs...
tar: ./lib: Cannot create symlink to ‘usr/lib’: File exists
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
dpkg-deb: error: tar subprocess returned error exit status 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-retrace", line 696, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/apport-retrace", line 465, in main
    sandbox, cache, outdated_msg = apport.sandboxutils.make_sandbox(
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/sandboxutils.py", line 227, in make_sandbox
    outdated_msg = packaging.install_packages(
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl/apt_dpkg.py", line 1350, in install_packages
    subprocess.check_call(["dpkg", "-x", i.destfile, rootdir])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['dpkg', '-x', '/srv/vms/apport-retrace/Ubuntu 24.04/apt/var/cache/apt/archives//base-files_13ubuntu9_amd64.deb', '/tmp/apport_sandbox_zj9wto2z']' returned non-zero exit status 2.

I've tried cleaning the cache, /srv/vms/apport-retrace/Ubuntu 24.04/, but the retracing process continues to fail. The crashes I'm trying to retrace have been uploaded to Launchpad and still have the coredumps attached but I'd be happy to subscribe an apport developer to them.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: apport-retrace 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset wl nvidia zfs
ApportLog:

ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 24 16:03:45 2024
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-retrace
ExecutableTimestamp: 1713871810
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-10 (2114 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.12
JournalErrors: -- No entries --
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/apport-retrace -v -S /home/bdmurray/source-trees/daisy/watchtower-archive/ -C /srv/vms/apport-retrace --verbose --gdb-sandbox --auth /home/bdmurray/.launchpadlib/retracer-credentials-lpnet --confirm 2062390
ProcCwd: /home/bdmurray/source-trees/apport/apport
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.12, Python 3.12.3, python3-minimal, 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-retrace', '-v', '-S', '/home/bdmurray/source-trees/daisy/watchtower-archive/', '-C', '/srv/vms/apport-retrace', '--verbose', '--gdb-sandbox', '--auth', '/home/bdmurray/.launchpadlib/retracer-credentials-lpnet', '--confirm', '2062390']
PythonDetails: N/A
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-retrace crashed with subprocess.CalledProcessError in check_call(): Command '['dpkg', '-x', '/srv/vms/apport-retrace/Ubuntu 24.04/apt/var/cache/apt/archives//base-files_13ubuntu9_amd64.deb', '/tmp/apport_sandbox_zj9wto2z']' returned non-zero exit status 2.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-04-16 (38 days ago)
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