Ubuntu
apt package

Trusty server installations hang on 'Installing GRUB boot loader'

Bug #1254696 reported by Para Siva
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Colin Watson
Trusty
Fix Released
Critical
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Trusty server installations hang on 'Installing GRUB boot loader' with today's images. (20131125). Occurs on both amd64 and i386 images and using libvirt/kvm. Have not tried on hardware yet though.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start the installation
2. Continue with default selections
3. It could be noticed that the installation hangs at the grub installation stage.

The impacted jobs are:
http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/server/i386/20131125/5095/default/
and
http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/server/amd64/20131125/5089/

Tags: iso-testing
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

It looks as though cdebconf crashed, perhaps, although it hasn't changed recently. I'll try to reproduce locally.

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

It looks very much as though APT::Keep-Fds has stopped working properly. dpkg has lost its connection to the debconf passthrough file descriptors that are supposed to be maintained this way, and everything goes south from there.

affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu)
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Triaged
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
tags: removed: rls-t-incoming
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.9.13~exp1ubuntu2

---------------
apt (0.9.13~exp1ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=low

  * Fix two subprocess calls to continue to honour APT::Keep-Fds
    (LP: #1254696).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:49:25 +0000

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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