** Also affects: software-properties (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1939732
Title:
report availability of Ubuntu Advantage ESM services on unattached
machines
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in software-properties source package in Bionic:
New
Status in software-properties source package in Focal:
Fix Committed
Status in software-properties source package in Hirsute:
Fix Committed
Status in software-properties source package in Impish:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
[Impact]
* Error messages emitted to software-properties-gtk console "[Errno 2] No
such file or directory: '/var/lib/ubuntu-advantage/status.json'" due to
incorrect expectation that status.json file is written when non-root runs `ua
status`
* This logic results in multiple `ua status` calls which each result in a
network-egress to https://contracts.canonical.com on unattached machines which
could result in delays in rendering the GTK dialogs while awaiting a response.
[Test Case]
1. Install latest version of software-properties-gtk from -proposed
cat > setup_proposed.sh <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
mirror=http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
echo deb \$mirror \$(lsb_release -sc)-proposed main | tee
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list
apt-get update -q
apt-get install -qy software-properties-gtk software-properties-common
python3-software-properties
EOF
IP=`uvt-kvm ip ${DESKTOP_VM}`
scp setup_proposed.sh ubuntu@$IP:.
ssh ubuntu@$IP -- sudo bash ./setup_proposed.sh
2. run software-properties-gtk on the commandline
ssh ubuntu@$IP -- software-properties-gtk
# Validate no error messages on launch
3. Click Updates tab and validate
Basic Security Maintenance "Extend..."
Active until 04/23/2025
(Extend.. is a link that will spawn a browser to
ubuntu.com/security/esm)
4. Click Cancel button
5. Attach to a UA contract and re-run Software and updates UX
ssh ubuntu@$IP -- sudo ua attach $MY_TOKEN
ssh ubuntu@$IP -- software-properties-gtk
# validate no error messages
6. Click Updates tab and validate:
Extended Security Maintenance
Active until 12/31/1999
# Note no "Extend..." text or link
[Where problems could occur]
* invalid parsing of UA contract information or missing
/var/lib/ubuntu-advantage/status.json will print messages to the console in the
event of errors or warnings.
* failures and tracebacks in this code will result in invalid representation
of system defaults in the Updates tab about whether or not a machine is
attached to a contract or whether the contract is expired.
* Other than user-facing documentation about the state of the UA
subscription this does not prevent the dialogs from functioning.
* limited network environments could have a delay of UX rendering due to `ua
status` calls timing out on attempts to reach contracts.canonical.com
[Original Description]
Release: bionic/focal
Version: 0.96.24.32 (bionic)
Issue:
Software & Updates GTK UI doesn't report availability of Ubuntu Advantage ESM
Infra or ESM Apps services on unattached machines
Steps to repropduce:
Launch software-properties-gtk from the commandline.
See unexpected errors on the terminal
No ua status file written:
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/ubuntu-advantage/status.json'
Navigation to the "Updates" tab
See only:
Basic Security Maintenance
04/26/2023
Expected results:
See no error messages on terminal
See a link to the right of Basic Security Maintenance on the "Updates" tab
that points to ESM info
Basic Security Maintenance Extend...(links to
ubuntu.com/security/esm)
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