d-i step "Configure the keyboard" fails

[dann frazier]

Testing a bionic build of d-i w/ proposed results in a failure.

From d-i's /var/log/syslog:

Jul 20 20:01:04 main-menu[897]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
Jul 20 20:03:23 main-menu[897]: INFO: Menu item 'console-setup-udeb' selected
Jul 20 20:03:25 main-menu[897]: (process:1567): /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup-udeb.postinst: line 52: dpkg-query: not found
Jul 20 20:03:25 main-menu[897]: WARNING **: Configuring 'console-setup-udeb' failed with error code 127
Jul 20 20:03:25 main-menu[897]: WARNING **: Menu item 'console-setup-udeb' failed.
Jul 20 20:03:41 main-menu[897]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
Jul 20 20:03:46 kernel: [ 224.155631] random: crng init done

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

This might be related to the fix of bug #1762952, whose purpose is to not accomplish keyboard configuration in connection with an upgrade of the keyboard-configuration package.

The complaint seems to be "dpkg-query: not found", and the dpkg-query command is indeed used in the pending change. Is d-i run in an environment where dpkg is not present?

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted console-setup into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/1.178ubuntu2.2 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 and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. 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!

[dann frazier (dannf)]

I rebuilt bionic d-i against proposed and the problem is now gone.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.178ubuntu4

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console-setup (1.178ubuntu4) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/console-setup-udeb.postinst: Guard the dpkg call in the postinst,
    so it isn't attempted in the debian-installer environment (LP: #1782835)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:22:45 -0600

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.178ubuntu2.2

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console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/console-setup-udeb.postinst: Guard the dpkg call in the postinst,
    so it isn't attempted in the debian-installer environment (LP: #1782835)

console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/keyboard-configuration.postinst:
    - Don't change /etc/default/keyboard at package upgrades on
      desktops, since it may conflict with how desktops deal with
      keyboard configuration (LP: #1762952).

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:22:45 -0600

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for console-setup has completed successfully and the package has now been 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.