Lubuntu Kinetic installation crashes near the end on a system with a badly outdated clock

Bug #1973469 reported by Aaron Rainbolt
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Bug Description

Test hardware is on an HP Elitebook 8570p, 16 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD.

My Elitebook has a hardware problem that requires that I detach the CMOS battery and leave it that way in order for the system to function. Additionally, if I shut the system down, I have to leave it unplugged and with the battery removed, otherwise it won't boot when I go to turn it on next. (I think a thunderstorm fried a capacitor that had something to do with the CMOS, but anyway, weird as it may sound, that's the problem with my computer.)

As a result, when I power my Elitebook on, it thinks that it's some time in the year 2000, which is about 22 years off.

In addition, my Elitebook uses a Broadcom wireless chip, meaning that I have to connect to the Internet via Ethernet in order to install the driver for it. Since getting an Ethernet connection in my house is not so easy, I chose to simply perform the installation offline.

At the very end of the installation, the installation failed, and I received the following error message:

    External command finished with errors.

    Command apt-get update finished with exit code 100.
    Output:
    Ign:1 cdrom://Lubuntu 22.10 _Kinetic Kudu_ - Alpha amd64 (20220514) kinetic InRelease
    Hit:2 cdrom://Lubuntu 22.10 _Kinetic Kudu_ - Alpha amd64 (20220514) kinetic Release
    /bin/tar: libreoffice-calc_libreoffice-calc.png: time stamp 2022-05-03 18:02:43 is 1075359.205693822 s in the future
    /bin/tar: libreoffice-draw_libreoffice-draw.png: time stamp 2022-05-03 18:02:44 is 1075360.20555066 s in the future
    Reading package lists...
    E: Release file for cdrom://Lubuntu 22.10 _Kinetic Kudu_ - Alpha amd64 (20220514)/dists/kinetic/Release is not valid yet (invalid for another 18d 6h 51min 33s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

The tar errors lead me to believe that this is a result of the out-of-date clock on my system. Furthermore, after connecting to the Internet to install the Broadcom drivers in the live environment and make the bug report, my clock is up-to-date, and I was able to install the system thereafter.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: calamares 3.2.41.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
.etc.calamares.modules.finished.conf:
 ---
 restartNowMode: user-checked
 restartNowCommand: "systemctl -i reboot"
.etc.calamares.modules.shellprocess_logs.conf:
 ---
 dontChroot: true
 timeout: 30
 script:
     - calamares-logs-helper @@ROOT@@
.etc.calamares.modules.unpackfs.conf:
 ---
 unpack:
     - source: "/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs"
         sourcefs: "squashfs"
         destination: ""
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.470
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Sun May 15 11:26:02 2022
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Alpha amd64 (20220514)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 calamares-settings-ubuntu-common 1:22.10.1
 calamares-settings-lubuntu 1:22.10.1
 xfsprogs 5.13.0-1ubuntu3
 btrfs-progs 5.16.2-1
SourcePackage: calamares
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Aaron Rainbolt (arraybolt3) wrote :
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1973469

tags: added: iso-testing
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

So uh, can you still reproduce this? That seems funky.

Changed in calamares (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for calamares (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in calamares (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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