[Bug 1890804] [NEW] 20.10 groovy proposed: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service fails to start if resolvconf is installed at the same time

[kortewegdevries]

Public bug reported:

I was trying to find some resolutions when I found this fresh debian bug
report: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-
dist at lists.debian.org/msg1759183.html

Is likely reproducible similarly but I can't since all my machines were
hit by this bug and barely made one working and virtualbox-dkms is
broken on 5.8.0-12-generic (filed that one too). This made all my
fallback kernels,recovery unbootable! The solution discussed there is to
remove the offending package resolvconf. I tried that in recovery mode
root shell (graphical won't boot), but dpkg hangs when it tries to
reload daemons but it can't asking me to restart after 20 minutes
leaving with a host of broken packages but the system is finally
bootable.

Journalctl logspam:

Journal file /var/log/journal/383ea8c95927438c95c2011a5f5bbfbb/system at 0005ac4607f96c17-321a00afc15a51fc.journal~ is truncated, ignoring file.
-- Logs begin at Fri 2020-08-07 06:46:27 UTC, end at Fri 2020-08-07 10:35:32 UTC. --
Aug 07 06:46:27 systemd[1]: Failed to start resolvconf-pull-resolved.service.
 Subject: A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has failed
 Defined-By: systemd
Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
 A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has finished with a failure.
 The job identifier is 1649803534 and the job result is failed.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
.............

systemd       246-2ubuntu1
systemd-sysv  246-2ubuntu1
resolvconf    1.82ubuntu1
Kernel: 5.8.0-12-generic x86_64
Distro: Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) (*Proposed)

Just to note the bug probably came with systemd 246-2ubuntu1 today for
me since it was working fine yesterday, not sure. Also some other
systemd services are failing since moving to proposed like UFW (filed
one too.)

** Affects: resolvconf (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: groovy

** Description changed:

  I was trying to find some resolutions when I found this fresh debian bug
  report: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-
  dist at lists.debian.org/msg1759183.html
  
  Is likely reproducible similarly but I can't since all my machines were
  hit by this bug and barely made one working and virtualbox-dkms is
  broken on 5.8.0-12-generic (filed that one too). This made all my
  fallback kernels,recovery unbootable! The solution discussed there is to
  remove the offending package resolvconf. I tried that in recovery mode
  root shell (graphical won't boot), but dpkg hangs when it tries to
  reload daemons but it can't asking me to restart after 20 minutes
  leaving with a host of broken packages but the system is finally
  bootable.
  
  Journalctl logspam:
  
  Journal file /var/log/journal/383ea8c95927438c95c2011a5f5bbfbb/system at 0005ac4607f96c17-321a00afc15a51fc.journal~ is truncated, ignoring file.
  -- Logs begin at Fri 2020-08-07 06:46:27 UTC, end at Fri 2020-08-07 10:35:32 UTC. --
  Aug 07 06:46:27 systemd[1]: Failed to start resolvconf-pull-resolved.service.
-  Subject: A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has failed
-  Defined-By: systemd
+  Subject: A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has failed
+  Defined-By: systemd
  Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
-  A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has finished with a failure.
-  The job identifier is 1649803534 and the job result is failed.
+  A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has finished with a failure.
+  The job identifier is 1649803534 and the job result is failed.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  .............
  
- 
  systemd       246-2ubuntu1
  systemd-sysv  246-2ubuntu1
  resolvconf    1.82ubuntu1
  Kernel: 5.8.0-12-generic x86_64
  Distro: Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) (*Proposed)
+ 
+ Just to note the bug probably came with systemd 246-2ubuntu1 today for
+ me since it was working fine yesterday, not sure. Also some other
+ systemd services are failing since moving to proposed like UFW (filed
+ one too.)

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Title:
  20.10 groovy proposed: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service fails to start
  if resolvconf is installed at the same time

Status in resolvconf package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was trying to find some resolutions when I found this fresh debian
  bug report: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-
  dist at lists.debian.org/msg1759183.html

  Is likely reproducible similarly but I can't since all my machines
  were hit by this bug and barely made one working and virtualbox-dkms
  is broken on 5.8.0-12-generic (filed that one too). This made all my
  fallback kernels,recovery unbootable! The solution discussed there is
  to remove the offending package resolvconf. I tried that in recovery
  mode root shell (graphical won't boot), but dpkg hangs when it tries
  to reload daemons but it can't asking me to restart after 20 minutes
  leaving with a host of broken packages but the system is finally
  bootable.

  Journalctl logspam:

  Journal file /var/log/journal/383ea8c95927438c95c2011a5f5bbfbb/system at 0005ac4607f96c17-321a00afc15a51fc.journal~ is truncated, ignoring file.
  -- Logs begin at Fri 2020-08-07 06:46:27 UTC, end at Fri 2020-08-07 10:35:32 UTC. --
  Aug 07 06:46:27 systemd[1]: Failed to start resolvconf-pull-resolved.service.
   Subject: A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has failed
   Defined-By: systemd
  Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
   A start job for unit resolvconf-pull-resolved.service has finished with a failure.
   The job identifier is 1649803534 and the job result is failed.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Aug 07 06:46:29 systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  .............

  systemd       246-2ubuntu1
  systemd-sysv  246-2ubuntu1
  resolvconf    1.82ubuntu1
  Kernel: 5.8.0-12-generic x86_64
  Distro: Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) (*Proposed)

  Just to note the bug probably came with systemd 246-2ubuntu1 today for
  me since it was working fine yesterday, not sure. Also some other
  systemd services are failing since moving to proposed like UFW (filed
  one too.)

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