Public bug reported: Reported by a partner:
In our Ubuntu containers (with our own minimal container runtime), we are often hitting an issue like this when installing packages: Setting up install-info (7.1-3build2) ... /usr/sbin/update-info-dir: 3: /etc/environment: cannot open 536: No such file dpkg: error processing package install-info (--configure): installed install-info package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: install-info E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The reason is that our container runtime enroot writes the environment variables from the docker image to /etc/environment, and it uses the simple format KEY=VAL, without any quoting of any kind. But "update-info-dir" does the following: set -e # # since user's environment is taken over into root account when sudo-ing # we don't want that one's user LANGUAGE setting changes the messages in # the dir file. Unset LANGUAGE and reload /etc/environment to get # the system wide settings. See bug #536476 unset LANGUAGE unset LANG if [ -r /etc/environment ] ; then . /etc/environment fi if [ -r /etc/default/locale ] ; then . /etc/default/locale fi It's hard to be 100% sure given that /etc/environment is not standardized, but overall it does not seem like this file was designed to be interpreted by a shell. From man 8 pam_env: Second a file (/etc/environment by default) with simple KEY=VAL pairs on separate lines will be read. From the IBM AIX documentation (trying to find a reference that likely hasn't changed in a while): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1.0?topic=files-environment-file Ensure that the information in the environment file is in the Name=Value format. Unlike profile scripts, the environment file is not a shell script and does not accept data in any format other than the Name=Value format. Thus I think that sourcing /etc/environment is incorrect in package install-info. You can find a few other Ubuntu users that stumbled into the same bug: https://askubuntu.com/questions/920055/errors-were-encountered-while-processing-install-info ** Affects: texinfo (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - /usr/sbin/update-info-dir from ubuntu package "install-info" sources /etc/environment + /usr/sbin/update-info-dir from ubuntu package "install-info" sources /etc/environment, which is not a shell script -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2125808 Title: /usr/sbin/update-info-dir from ubuntu package "install-info" sources /etc/environment, which is not a shell script To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texinfo/+bug/2125808/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
