[Bug 1789977] Re: Upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 crashed, required dpkg --configure -a to recover (multiple machines)

Thu Sep 6 22:24:19 UTC 2018

I am almost certain that the lvm2 messages happen in the couple of
minutes before the box crashes/reboots itself.  The fact that they
happen over several minutes is part of what makes me think that it's
coincidental and just something that's unhappy because we're in the
middle of installing stuff underneath it.  But they were significant and
they did happen at the right time, so I didn't want to leave them out.

I can try to get some time from someone here to set up a machine, remove
just our custom edits, and try an upgrade if that seems valuable.  I'd
also appreciate any other suggestions for things to try -- I don't think
we can try every possible combination but we can try at least a few
things if anyone has any ideas.

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Title:
  Upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 crashed, required dpkg --configure -a to
  recover (multiple machines)

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I've now had three systems we've tried to upgrade from 16.04 to
  18.04.1 which crashed during the upgrade and had to be recovered with
  dpkg --configure -a.  I was able to recover two of them with a bit of
  manual care, but I am now hesitant to upgrade other machines until we
  know what's going on here.  I have included the /var/log/dist-upgrade
  files from my machine (since I used my own machine as the most recent
  guinea pig).  It does look like I have lvm2-activation segfault
  messages in the kern.log on at least two machines right around the
  time of the upgrade crash, but I don't know if that's coincidental or
  not.

  Sample of the segfault messages from my machine:
  Aug 29 15:10:27 freyja kernel: [195160.629514] lvm2-activation[15715]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fd827fca856 sp 00007ffde5d35680 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fd827fb9000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:10:27 freyja kernel: [195160.713440] lvm2-activation[15733]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f44b3988856 sp 00007ffdb6e5d4c0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f44b3977000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:10:27 freyja kernel: [195160.798651] lvm2-activation[15752]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f346d42f856 sp 00007ffd5768e4f0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f346d41e000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:10:29 freyja kernel: [195161.966851] lvm2-activation[15828]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f777861b856 sp 00007fff93d2c630 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f777860a000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:10:29 freyja kernel: [195162.486662] lvm2-activation[15917]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f9103082856 sp 00007fff41154300 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f9103071000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:10:29 freyja kernel: [195162.563455] lvm2-activation[15935]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f52b6bbc856 sp 00007fff1870edf0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f52b6bab000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:10:30 freyja kernel: [195163.412017] lvm2-activation[15979]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f6936a39856 sp 00007ffd51ffb310 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f6936a28000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:10:33 freyja kernel: [195166.198145] lvm2-activation[16105]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f3f237e0856 sp 00007ffc39518a00 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f3f237cf000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:05 freyja kernel: [195198.249543] lvm2-activation[21607]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f49dd5f5856 sp 00007fff75685b10 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f49dd5e4000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:09 freyja kernel: [195202.640113] lvm2-activation[21835]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fc43ec0e856 sp 00007ffe6658e450 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fc43ebfd000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:11 freyja kernel: [195204.413656] lvm2-activation[21970]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f0f3bd83856 sp 00007ffdef97c380 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f0f3bd72000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:11 freyja kernel: [195204.485270] lvm2-activation[21988]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f6ea5b4f856 sp 00007fff9e026e90 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f6ea5b3e000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:11 freyja kernel: [195204.554083] lvm2-activation[22006]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f93b3d47856 sp 00007ffcdef72de0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f93b3d36000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:14 freyja kernel: [195206.946621] lvm2-activation[22115]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fb5f1816856 sp 00007fffe506a9e0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fb5f1805000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:25 freyja kernel: [195218.473850] lvm2-activation[22749]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f277405f856 sp 00007ffe3c670390 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f277404e000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:54 freyja kernel: [195246.961884] lvm2-activation[23901]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fbfda96f856 sp 00007fff601f88f0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fbfda95e000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:57 freyja kernel: [195250.704760] lvm2-activation[24042]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f833389c856 sp 00007ffdc0a0fcd0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f833388b000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:57 freyja kernel: [195250.787236] lvm2-activation[24060]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fc4aa5be856 sp 00007fff226ab300 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fc4aa5ad000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:58 freyja kernel: [195251.543320] lvm2-activation[24091]: segfault at d0 ip 00007ff974d37856 sp 00007ffcf7801690 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7ff974d26000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:11:58 freyja kernel: [195251.665093] lvm2-activation[24110]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f3d949bc856 sp 00007ffc6d0cc830 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f3d949ab000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:13:11 freyja kernel: [195324.098299] lvm2-activation[27039]: segfault at d0 ip 00007faabf509856 sp 00007ffeb550cc20 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7faabf4f8000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:13:11 freyja kernel: [195324.275785] lvm2-activation[27067]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fe5456d9856 sp 00007ffd5bb51b90 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fe5456c8000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:13:13 freyja kernel: [195326.100150] lvm2-activation[27182]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f16d56ec856 sp 00007ffd44857010 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f16d56db000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:13:13 freyja kernel: [195326.420312] lvm2-activation[27233]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f0bf29de856 sp 00007fff286ea440 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f0bf29cd000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:13:13 freyja kernel: [195326.503807] lvm2-activation[27251]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f6476061856 sp 00007ffd422afac0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f6476050000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:13:19 freyja kernel: [195331.944316] lvm2-activation[27513]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f2be539d856 sp 00007ffc2f03c940 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f2be538c000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:14:11 freyja kernel: [195383.946410] lvm2-activation[29411]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fc93d19f856 sp 00007ffd6ae018c0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fc93d18e000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:15:46 freyja kernel: [195479.584771] lvm2-activation[32464]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f35108a2856 sp 00007ffe3b345490 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f3510891000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:15:48 freyja kernel: [195481.652139] lvm2-activation[32554]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f6b476a1856 sp 00007ffdde2fa720 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f6b47690000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:15:49 freyja kernel: [195482.225092] lvm2-activation[32620]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fb7f84ab856 sp 00007ffdf59f8840 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fb7f849a000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:16:06 freyja kernel: [195499.517210] lvm2-activation[1075]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fbbe2286856 sp 00007fff4fbc96b0 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fbbe2275000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:16:06 freyja kernel: [195499.748871] lvm2-activation[1112]: segfault at d0 ip 00007fb41a38b856 sp 00007ffd8b1edb80 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7fb41a37a000+101000]
  Aug 29 15:16:08 freyja kernel: [195501.755037] lvm2-activation[1197]: segfault at d0 ip 00007f7e5515c856 sp 00007ffe67271a20 error 4 in liblvm2app.so.2.2[7f7e5514b000+101000]

  Any ideas?  We can conceivably manually take each employee's system
  and assume the upgrade will crash, and just manually fix each one (I
  think) but that seems like a terrible solution.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Aug 30 13:46:49 2018
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-29 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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