Ubuntu 16.04 installer observation

[Wayne Workman]

I noticed today that Ubuntu 16.04 failed it’s installation test on the dev-branch. This is unusual for Ubuntu. Normally, Ubuntu passes it’s installation tests.

Attached are the logs from the run.

2021-03-01_12-33-PM_output.log
2021-03-01_12-33-PM_fog_error.log
2021-03-01_12-33-PM_apache.log

[Sebastian Roth]

@Wayne-Workman Thanks Wayne for pointing this out. I don’t check on this too often and didn’t notice it.

The first error we see in the logs is:

E: gzread: Read error (-3: <fd:5>: requested length does not fit in int)
E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/libfontconfig1_2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
...

This happens when the FOG installer tries to install package htmldocs. After that first error we see it actually installing a few of the dependency packages but then failing with:

Unpacking libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 (2.4.91-2~16.04.1) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute package filesystem archive extraction (dpkg-deb): Text file busy
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.91-2~16.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
...

From then on more an more package installs fail. To me it looks like a disk error or local package database being corrupted if I’d guess. But could be wrong just as well.

[Wayne Workman]

That looks to be the case. Just a fluke. Today, it installed fine.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Wayne-Workman We seem to have another hickup with the install test on Ubuntu 16.04 (master, dev-branch and working-1.6 this time).

Package installer seems to be in a bad state - error:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

[Wayne Workman]

@sebastian-roth I know, need to fix it.
This happens every time there is a GRUB update for Ubuntu. Even though I specify apt-get -y dist-upgrade it asks what to do, every time, and leaves the run in a bad state.

[Wayne Workman]

Ubuntu 16.04 is now officially “End of Standard Support”.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

This means packages in “main” and “restricted” are no longer supported for it.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Wayne-Workman Ok, right. Then toss it I would say.