Custom alternate ISO fails to install ubuntu-desktop witout network

[Daniel Dehennin]

Hello,

Creating an custom ISO with cdimage, I can not install ubuntu-desktop when network is not connected.

When the network is connected, everything is fetched from network and it works fine.

I tried to compare the list of packages installed when network is connected to the content of the CD and found that all packages are present on the ISO.

May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Building dependency tree...
May 7 07:15:59 in-target:
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Reading state information...
May 7 07:15:59 in-target:
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: The following information may help to resolve the situation:
May 7 07:15:59 in-target:
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: ubuntu-desktop : Depends: checkbox-gui but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Depends: unity-control-center but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Depends: xorg but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: cheese but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: empathy but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: gnome-screensaver but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-gnome but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-ogltrans but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-pdfimport but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-presentation-minimizer but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: nautilus-share but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: rhythmbox but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: rhythmbox-plugin-magnatune but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: shotwell but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: totem but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: totem-mozilla but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: ubuntu-docs but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: unity-webapps-common but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: xul-ext-unity but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Recommends: xul-ext-webaccounts but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: E
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: :
May 7 07:15:59 in-target: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Then I try to install the depends and recommends by hand, and need to walk through checkbox-gui dependencies

~ # in-target apt-get -s install checkbox-gui
~ # in-target apt-get -s install qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin
~ # in-target apt-get -s install libqt5quick5
~ # in-target apt-get -s install libqt5gui5
~ # in-target apt-get -s install libgles2-mesa

The following are OK:

~ # in-target apt-get -s install unity-control-center
~ # in-target apt-get -s install xorg
~ # in-target apt-get -s install cheese
~ # in-target apt-get -s install gnome-screensaver

The full log is in attachement.

[Daniel Dehennin (launchpad-baby-gnu)]

Simulating the install on checkbox-gui with all its dependencies is OK:

~ # in-target apt-get -s install checkbox-gui libgles2-mesa qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-toolkit-plugin libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic
May 7 07:29:34 in-target: Reading state information...
May 7 07:29:34 in-target:
May 7 07:29:34 in-target: The following extra packages will be installed:
May 7 07:29:34 in-target: checkbox-ng checkbox-ng-service dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service
[...]

Adding ubuntu-desktop seems to introduce some problem:

~ # in-target apt-get -s install checkbox-gui libgles2-mesa qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-toolkit-plugin libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic ubuntu-desktop
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Building dependency tree...
May 7 07:30:14 in-target:
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Reading state information...
May 7 07:30:14 in-target:
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: The following information may help to resolve the situation:
May 7 07:30:14 in-target:
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic (= 10.3.2-0ubuntu1~trusty2) but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: ubuntu-desktop : Depends: unity-control-center but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Depends: xorg but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Recommends: cheese but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Recommends: empathy but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Recommends: totem but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Recommends: totem-mozilla but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Recommends: xul-ext-webaccounts but it is not going to be installed
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: E
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: :
May 7 07:30:14 in-target: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Daniel Dehennin (launchpad-baby-gnu)]

I try to integrate the full list of packages installed when network is OK and found:

May 11 08:31:20 in-target: Reading package lists...
May 11 08:31:20 in-target:
May 11 08:31:20 in-target: Building dependency tree...
May 11 08:31:20 in-target:
May 11 08:31:20 in-target: Reading state information...
May 11 08:31:20 in-target:
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: libck-connector0 is already the newest version.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: libck-connector0 set to manually installed.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: openssh-server is already the newest version.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: openssh-sftp-server is already the newest version.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: openssh-sftp-server set to manually installed.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: libwrap0 is already the newest version.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: libwrap0 set to manually installed.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: unattended-upgrades is already the newest version.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: The following information may help to resolve the situation:
May 11 08:31:21 in-target:
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic : Conflicts: libglapi-mesa
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: xserver-xorg : Conflicts: xorg-renamed-package
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: E
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: :
May 11 08:31:21 in-target: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Daniel Dehennin (launchpad-baby-gnu)]

I finally manage to pass this issue by adding xserver-xorg to my project germinate seed file.