Comment 3 for bug 2060187

I am also affected, cannot build an Noble Ubuntu image on Noble host using the following command:

$ sudo autopkgtest-build-qemu noble noble.img http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

Error log:

2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDOUT: Reading package lists...
2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDOUT: Building dependency tree...
2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDOUT: Reading state information...
2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDOUT: Package ifupdown is not available, but is referred to by another package.
2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDERR: E: Package 'ifupdown' has no installation candidate
2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDOUT: This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDOUT: is only available from another source
2024-06-19 11:31:31 DEBUG STDOUT:

2024-06-19 11:31:31 ERROR Program failed: 100
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/app.py", line 245, in run_steps_helper
    method(values, settings, state)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/apt_plugin.py", line 48, in run
    self.install_packages(mount_point, ["eatmydata"], recommends, packages)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/apt_plugin.py", line 66, in install_packages
    vmdb.runcmd_chroot(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/runcmd.py", line 101, in runcmd_chroot
    return runcmd(full_argv, *argvs, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/runcmd.py", line 95, in runcmd
    raise RuncmdError("Program failed: {}".format(p.returncode))
vmdb.runcmd.RuncmdError: Program failed: 100
2024-06-19 11:31:31 ERROR RuncmdError('Program failed: 100')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/app.py", line 245, in run_steps_helper
    method(values, settings, state)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/apt_plugin.py", line 48, in run
    self.install_packages(mount_point, ["eatmydata"], recommends, packages)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/apt_plugin.py", line 66, in install_packages
    vmdb.runcmd_chroot(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/runcmd.py", line 101, in runcmd_chroot
    return runcmd(full_argv, *argvs, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/runcmd.py", line 95, in runcmd
    raise RuncmdError("Program failed: {}".format(p.returncode))
vmdb.runcmd.RuncmdError: Program failed: 100