This bug was fixed in the package systemd - 239-7ubuntu10.11
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systemd (239-7ubuntu10.11) cosmic; urgency=medium
* virt: detect WSL environment as a container (LP: #1816753)
-- Balint Reczey <rbal...@ubuntu.com> Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:30:22 +0100
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
do-release-upgrade on WSL failed horribly due to grub and others
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Bionic:
Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Cosmic:
Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Disco:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
* Package maintainer scripts and services use systemd-detect-virt and
systemd's virtualization detection to determine the environment they are ran in
and based on that skip not applicable operations, such as installing grub info
to the MBR or to the EFI partition in a container. The WSL environment is
similar to containers in that boot loader and initramfs preparations are not
useful, but without this change only ad-hoc tests could be implemented in each
separate package to avoid obsolete actions or failing in trying not applicable
operations.
* The fix detects WSL as a container type, called wsl in systemd and as a
result make packages behave like they would in classic Linuxcontainers.
[Test Case]
* Install the fixed systemd package in WSL and observe that it is detected
as a container:
$ systemd-detect-virt --container
wsl
$
* Install the fixed systemd package in LXC and observe that it is still
detected correctly:
$ systemd-detect-virt --container
lxc
$
* Install the fixed systemd package in a VM or on a bare metal systemd and
observe that it is still detected correctly:
$ systemd-detect-virt --container
none
$ echo $?
1
* Observe the man page of sytemd-detect-virt mentioning wsl.
[Regression Potential]
* The changes is virtualization detection could break the detection logic
but the test cases here cover most of the relevant code paths and the detection
logic is also exercised in autopkgtests thus causing a regression is unlikely.
* The changes to the man pages could break the formatting, but a simple
observation mitigates that risk, too.
[Original Bug Text]
Upon reading an Ubuntu page that said it was possible to upgrade my
Ubuntu-under-Windows 10 install (WSL) from 16.04 LTS just by running
do-release-upgrade, I excitedly went to my terminal and ran the
command.
First it refused to run because system was not fully updated. Fine, I ran:
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
This process completed without any errors. I then ran do-release-
upgrade again. This time it started okay and got through most of the
process.
But then at some point it decided to run grub even though I am running
Ubuntu under WSL, so presumably grub should not be used. It did
apparently detect that it wasn't needed, because it asked me if I was
sure I didn't want to install it on the boot device. I answered yes.
Then the install proceeded to LXD but soon after came an error related
to grub.
After that it went downhill fast with at least 2 other errors.
Additionally, when the system attempted to roll back the upgrade I got
an error from a kernel package.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.38ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Microsoft 4.4.0-17763.253-Microsoft 4.4.35
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 19 23:50:44 2019
Dmesg: [ 0.017808] Microsoft 4.4.0-17763.253-Microsoft 4.4.35
ErrorMessage: installed friendly-recovery package post-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 1
PackageArchitecture: all
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.7, python3-minimal,
3.6.7-1~18.04
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal,
2.7.15~rc1-1
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
apt 1.6.8
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package friendly-recovery 0.2.38ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
installed friendly-recovery package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-02-20 (0 days ago)
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