Activity log for bug #1573275

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2016-04-21 22:16:14 Paul Sladen bug added bug
2016-04-21 22:17:00 Launchpad Janitor ubuntu: status New Confirmed
2016-04-21 22:18:40 Paul Sladen bug added subscriber Neal Gompa
2016-04-21 22:20:54 Paul Sladen description '/etc/init.d/networking' for 'ifupdown' starts with: # Required-Start: mountkernfs $local_fs urandom it would appear that 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' are not hard-dependencies, and their presence prevents successful installation in virtual machines in some circumstances. This was reported by Conan Kudo/<Pharaoh_Atem> on #ubuntu-devel whilst working on support for Suse Open Build System (OBS) to build Xenial packages: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.10ubuntu1/changelog Full and snipped output logs are at: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/358318/61266534/ https://paste.fedoraproject.org/358315/66065146/ in particular: [ 530s] [239/256] installing ifupdown-0.8.10ubuntu1 [ 530s] Creating /etc/network/interfaces. [ 531s] insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking [ 531s] insserv: Service urandom has to be enabled to start service networking [ 531s] insserv: exiting now! [ 531s] update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header [ 531s] dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--install): [ 531s] subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 The reporter tested that commenting out 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' allowed the ifupdown '/etc/init.d/networking' init-script to successfully complete. Ideally a hard-dependency should not be declared if it is not actually a hard-dependency, and introduces a regression by preventing successfully installation in circumstances and are reported to have worked before. '/etc/init.d/networking' for 'ifupdown' starts with:   # Required-Start: mountkernfs $local_fs urandom it would appear that 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' are not hard-dependencies, and their presence prevents successful installation in virtual machines in some circumstances. This was reported by Conan Kudo/<Pharaoh_Atem> on #ubuntu-devel whilst working on support for Suse Open Build System (OBS) to build Xenial packages:   http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.10ubuntu1/changelog Full and snipped output logs are at:   http://paste.fedoraproject.org/358318/61266534/   https://paste.fedoraproject.org/358315/66065146/ in particular:   [ 530s] [239/256] installing ifupdown-0.8.10ubuntu1   [ 530s] Creating /etc/network/interfaces.   [ 531s] insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking   [ 531s] insserv: Service urandom has to be enabled to start service networking   [ 531s] insserv: exiting now!   [ 531s] update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header   [ 531s] dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--install):   [ 531s] subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 The reporter tested that commenting out 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' allowed the ifupdown '/etc/init.d/networking' init-script to successfully complete. Ideally a hard-dependency should not be declared if it is not actually a hard-dependency, and introduces a regression by preventing successfully installation in circumstances that are reported to have worked previously for installing earlier Debian/Ubuntu versions on OBS.
2016-04-21 22:28:44 Paul Sladen description '/etc/init.d/networking' for 'ifupdown' starts with:   # Required-Start: mountkernfs $local_fs urandom it would appear that 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' are not hard-dependencies, and their presence prevents successful installation in virtual machines in some circumstances. This was reported by Conan Kudo/<Pharaoh_Atem> on #ubuntu-devel whilst working on support for Suse Open Build System (OBS) to build Xenial packages:   http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.10ubuntu1/changelog Full and snipped output logs are at:   http://paste.fedoraproject.org/358318/61266534/   https://paste.fedoraproject.org/358315/66065146/ in particular:   [ 530s] [239/256] installing ifupdown-0.8.10ubuntu1   [ 530s] Creating /etc/network/interfaces.   [ 531s] insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking   [ 531s] insserv: Service urandom has to be enabled to start service networking   [ 531s] insserv: exiting now!   [ 531s] update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header   [ 531s] dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--install):   [ 531s] subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 The reporter tested that commenting out 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' allowed the ifupdown '/etc/init.d/networking' init-script to successfully complete. Ideally a hard-dependency should not be declared if it is not actually a hard-dependency, and introduces a regression by preventing successfully installation in circumstances that are reported to have worked previously for installing earlier Debian/Ubuntu versions on OBS. '/etc/init.d/networking' for 'ifupdown' starts with:   # Required-Start: mountkernfs $local_fs urandom it would appear that 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' are not hard-dependencies, and their presence prevents successful installation in virtual machines in some circumstances. This was reported by Neal Gompa/<Pharaoh_Atem> on #ubuntu-devel whilst working on support for Suse Open Build System (OBS) to build Xenial packages:   http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.10ubuntu1/changelog Full and snipped output logs are at:   http://paste.fedoraproject.org/358318/61266534/   https://paste.fedoraproject.org/358315/66065146/ in particular:   [ 530s] [239/256] installing ifupdown-0.8.10ubuntu1   [ 530s] Creating /etc/network/interfaces.   [ 531s] insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking   [ 531s] insserv: Service urandom has to be enabled to start service networking   [ 531s] insserv: exiting now!   [ 531s] update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header   [ 531s] dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--install):   [ 531s] subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 The reporter tested that commenting out 'mountkernfs' and 'urandom' allowed the ifupdown '/etc/init.d/networking' init-script to successfully complete. Ideally a hard-dependency should not be declared if it is not actually a hard-dependency, and introduces a regression by preventing successfully installation in circumstances that are reported to have worked previously for installing earlier Debian/Ubuntu versions on OBS.
2016-04-22 04:32:38 Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot tags regression-release bot-comment regression-release
2016-04-22 04:49:11 Neal Gompa affects ubuntu ifupdown (Ubuntu)
2016-04-22 13:40:32 Paul Sladen ifupdown (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Won't Fix