** Description changed: when bootstrapping a Precise amd64 container the following error is displayed in the log. """ dpkg: regarding .../inetutils-ping_2%3a1.8-6_amd64.deb containing inetutils-ping: inetutils-ping conflicts with ping iputils-ping provides ping and is present and unpacked but not configured. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-ping_2%3a1.8-6_amd64.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing inetutils-ping Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-ping_2%3a1.8-6_amd64.deb /usr/sbin/debootstrap: 49: printf: %3a: invalid directive """ After retrying a couple of times bootstrapping continues and finishes successfully. bootstrap log attached. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: lxc 0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-1.3-generic 3.4.0-rc5 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-1-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue May 8 16:19:16 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64+mac (20120328) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lxc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ---- [impact] - Slows down chroot building, spam log with errors. + Slows down chroot building, spam log with errors and installs useless/broken packages. - [development fix] - The SRU is a copy of the template from development - - [stable fix] - The SRU is a copy of the template from development - - [Test case] + [test case] 1) lxc-create -t ubuntu -n p1 2) grep error /var/lib/lxc/p1/rootfs/var/log/bootstrap.log Here, 2) shouldn't return the dpkg failure listed above. - [Regression potential] - Unless people expected their debootstrap to take twice the usual time, I don't see any "regression" possible with just dropping inetutils-ping + [regression potential] + Unless people expected their debootstrap to take twice the usual time, I don't see any "regression" possible with clearing the list of broken packages we try (and fail) to install.
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