[Bug 1871268] Re: Installation fails due to useless immediate configuration error when "Install Third-Party Drivers" is selected

Tue Dec 8 12:04:36 UTC 2020

I can add another "me too" on a Asus K73SV laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GT
540M. With "Install updates during install" and "Install third party
drivers" checked I got the error which redirected me here. When I
rebooted I was greeted with a black boot screen that not made it into
GDM.

After installing again but this time without "Install third party
drivers" checked the installation worked normally. Immediately was
greeted with updates to install, though I had "Install updates during
install" still checked.

I am very disappointed, especially since this issue has been known for
over 8 months. This is the reason I wait some time before installing the
new LTS. This should have been fixed in 20.04.1 already.

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Title:
  Installation fails due to useless immediate configuration error when
  "Install Third-Party Drivers" is selected

Status in Ubuntu CD Images:
  Fix Released
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apt source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed
Status in apt source package in Focal:
  Triaged
Status in apt source package in Groovy:
  Triaged
Status in apt package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Installations that really succeeded would then fail because APT could not immediately configure a package. Which is a pointless way to fail at that point, because everything did work out anyway.

  So what we do is change that to a warning.

  [Test case]
  Not available right now. Issues can flare up and then disappear again.

  [Regression potential]
  It's imaginable that we missed something somewhere and some path that checked for a set error doesn't check it anymore, and we report success when we hit an error, but it seems unlikely.

  Behavior of --simulate changes. This used to fail before as well, and
  will now only produce a warning. We don't believe that is a reason of
  concern.

  [Groovy SRU]
  The groovy SRU is a sync of the 2.1.11 micro release from Debian unstable which also incorporates changes to the documentation: A typo fix, replacing focal with groovy in examples, and minor Dutch manual pages translation updates.

  We do not have test cases for the documentation changes, and we do not
  consider there to be a huge regression potential. As long as they
  build, they should be readable - maybe some words are wrong in the
  translation, who knows.

  [Original bug report]
  Test Case
  1. Install Ubuntu Desktop on hardware with an nVidia card and select to install 3rd party drivers
  2. Proceed with installation

  The following error message is displayed in /var/log/syslog
  /plugininstall.py: Verifying downloads ...
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/gcc_9.3.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb: "Version: '9.3.0-1ubuntu2' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxcrypt/libcrypt-dev_4.4.10-10ubuntu4_amd64.deb: "Version: '4.4.10-10ubuntu4' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/g++_9.3.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb: "Version: '9.3.0-1ubuntu2' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxau/libxau6_1.0.9-0ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.0.9-0ubuntu1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxdmcp/libxdmcp6_1.1.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.1.3-0ubuntu1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-6_1.6.9-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.6.9-2ubuntu1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxext/libxext6_1.3.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.3.4-0ubuntu1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/l/lm-sensors/libsensors5_3.6.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '3.6.0-2ubuntu1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-xcb1_1.6.9-2ubuntu1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.6.9-2ubuntu1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxdamage/libxdamage1_1.1.5-1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.1.5-1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxfixes/libxfixes3_5.0.3-1_i386.deb: "Version: '5.0.3-1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Failed to find package object for /cdrom//pool/main/libx/libxxf86vm/libxxf86vm1_1.1.4-1build1_i386.deb: "Version: '1.1.4-1build1' not found."
  /plugininstall.py: Downloads verified successfully
  ubiquity: Error in function: install
  /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
  /plugininstall.py: apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not configure 'libc6:i386'. , E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgcc-s1:i386'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  /plugininstall.py:

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubiquity 20.04.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu22
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.442
  Date: Mon Apr  6 20:17:07 2020
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200402)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=es_EC.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=es_EC.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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