Public bug reported:
A few days ago I noticed a problem during a normal apt-get upgrade - the
libreoffice-common package failed to install:
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb
(--unpack):
unable to open
Bug appears to be related to Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV). I removed SAV, and
apt-get -f install completed OK. Terminal output below.
SAV was using fanotify for on-access detection.
Caveats:
1. I have two machines affected by this, I've only tried this on one so far.
2. This is not a simple causal
Workaround:
I've found it is not necessary to uninstall Sophos Anti-virus, just disabling
the on-access scanning is enough:
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl disable
apt-get upgrade
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl enable
and re-enable it afterwards, so you still have the AV protection the rest of
the
Workaround:
I've found it is not necessary to uninstall Sophos Anti-virus, just disabling
the on-access scanning is enough:
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl disable
apt-get upgrade
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl enable
and re-enable it afterwards, so you still have the AV protection the rest of
the
Public bug reported:
Attempting to upgrade to 16.04.01 LTS
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: bsdutils 1:2.27.1-6ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-41.48~14.04.1-generic 4.2.8-ckt11
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-41-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm
Public bug reported:
Attempting to upgrade to 16.04.01 LTS
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: perl-modules-5.22 5.22.1-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-41.48~14.04.1-generic 4.2.8-ckt11
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-41-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm
Public bug reported:
If I have:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
in /etc/default/grub, boot hangs with "Failed to start Light Display Manager".
No problem, I delete the line and run update-grub.
However, running
apt upgrade
sometimes appends the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
to
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