** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu T-series)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
** Tags added: verification-done-raring
** Description changed:
[SRU justification]
In a container, the procps package fails to upgrade because sysctl will fail
when it can't write to certain keys. Since the procps has just been SRUed,
this means anyone running Ubuntu in a container (12.04 or later) will have
upgrade failures because of the procps upstart job failing to start.
[Test case]
1. Set up precise in an lxc container.
2. Apply updates from the -updates pocket.
3. Observe that the procps package fails to install.
4. Enable -proposed.
5. Install the procps package from -proposed.
6. Observe that the package upgrades successfully.
[Regression potential]
- This patch changes the behavior of the sysctl program and causes permission
errors to be non-fatal. Anything relying on the current behavior (e.g., when
sysctl is run by a non-root user) will regress as a result of this change, but
it's not obvious why anything would rely on this since sysctl is not meant to
be invoked by non-root users.
-
+ This patch changes the behavior of the sysctl program and causes permission
errors to be non-fatal. Anything relying on the current behavior (e.g., when
sysctl is run by a non-root user) will regress as a result of this change, but
it's not obvious why anything would rely on this since sysctl is not meant to
be invoked by non-root users. It *also* means that sysctl settings that were
previously not applied due to errors earlier in the sysctl config will now be
applied, resulting in unexpected behavior on some systems due to configured
settings now being applied.
root@xxxxx:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
root@xxxxxxx:~# apt-cache policy procps
procps:
Installed: 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6
Candidate: 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6
Version table:
*** 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I have a VPS that i upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.10 and then to 12.04.2
LTS.
But something is wrong and now i can't upgrade procps. I get the following
output,
root@xxxxxx:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up procps (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript procps, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing procps (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
procps
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
the /var/log/upstart/procps.log says,
kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7
net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 2
net.ipv6.conf.default.use_tempaddr = 2
error: permission denied on key 'kernel.kptr_restrict'
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536
And the output when i try to start procps is just the following,
root@xxxxx:~# service procps start
start: Job failed to start
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