unable to open '/usr/share/go-1.18/src/archive/tar/testdata/hdr-only.tar.dpkg-new': No such file or directory

[Kyle Edwards]

On attempting to install golang-1.18, I get the following error message:

Unpacking golang-1.18-src (1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/golang-1.18-src_1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/share/go-1.18/src/archive/tar/testdata/hdr-only.tar.dpkg-new': No such file or directory

Manual inspection of the .deb indicates that '/usr/share/go-1.18/src/archive/tar/testdata/hdr-only.tar.dpkg-new' (and a number of other files in '/usr/share/go-1.18/src/archive/tar/testdata') is present in md5sums, but not in the data.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: golang-1.18 1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-14.14~22.04.1-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: none
CloudName: none
CloudPlatform: none
CloudSubPlatform: config
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Feb 9 15:36:25 2024
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: golang-1.18
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Johannes Starosta (jstarosta)]

I get the same error on Ubuntu Jammy 22.02. And in any golang-src package I tried (1.13, 1.17, 1.18 and 1.21)

This is something of a show stopper since I wanted to upgrade from focal to jammy for an go application server. Now I can't meaning I will have to revert to the last vm image with running focal

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Johannes Starosta (jstarosta)]

Interesting enough on another host the upgrade from focals version 1.13 to jammys 1.18 (via the golang metapackage) worked without issues. Don't know why though