<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Thomas,<div><br></div><div>So, this was the issue. It was very hard to track down, as there was nothing in the FAI logs to indicate were the problem was, but eventually I found it :)</div><div><br></div><div>Someone had uploaded a package with bad control data into one of our repos. That is what the parsing of the available packages. I'm guessing that the packages that did manage to get included still, where before the bad control data for the package [ in the file that's parsed ].</div><div><br></div><div>I think I found the code that add all the available packages to the dpkg file as well:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">commit 8963c7268a68dc3ed29aa4208d3d7e800b5d2eb4</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Author: Thomas Lange <<a href="mailto:lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de">lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de</a>></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Date: Mon Dec 12 09:19:23 2016 +0100</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> create /var/lib/dpkg/available during packge installation</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">diff --git a/bin/fai-make-nfsroot b/bin/fai-make-nfsroot</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">index 5321d54d..8aebd6da 100755</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">--- a/bin/fai-make-nfsroot</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">+++ b/bin/fai-make-nfsroot</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ add_packages_nfsroot() {</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> local err</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> </font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> setclasses</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">+ $ROOTCMD apt-cache dumpavail > $NFSROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> install_packages -l -p$cfdir > $NFSROOT/var/tmp/packages.nfsroot</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> echo "Adding additional packages to $NFSROOT:"</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> cat $NFSROOT/var/tmp/packages.nfsroot</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">@@ -483,6 +484,7 @@ add_packages_nfsroot() {</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> if [ $err -ne 0 ]; then</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> die 12 "install_packages had exit code: $err"</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> fi</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">+ rm $NFSROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> set -e</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> }</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I presume fai-make-nfsroot is called during FAI build at some point ?</div><div>That's what I was missing, because whenever I check $NFSROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available it only had about 200 packages in it anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>I added a hack to a class for insoft to do:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">chroot /target/ apt-cache dumpavail > $NFSROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>..and that fixed the included packages, but I then found that aptitude was failing, due to an error on some control data in $NFSROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available</div><div>That's how I found the package with bad control data.</div><div><br></div><div>I removed it from the repos, and removed my hacks, and everything was back to normal :)</div><div><br></div><div>Would it be possible to somehow pass any errors through to fai.log if the process to a that parses the available packages errors?</div><div>Or do you think it was just failing silently anyway?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div><br></div>Cheers,<div>Just</div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 11:25, Justin Cattle <<a href="mailto:j@ocado.com">j@ocado.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think I have found the cause, so please don't check anything Thomas. I'll update with my findings soon :)<div>Hopefully you can help me understand the issue I've found.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-8186368780614258757gmail_signature"><div><br></div>Cheers,<div>Just</div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 09:02, Justin Cattle <<a href="mailto:j@ocado.com" target="_blank">j@ocado.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I've also just tried the latest version of install_packages from git, Same thing.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Like I said, I'm not a perl guy, but it seems like this is happening:</div><div><br></div><div>The hash pname is built from packages listed in $FAI_ROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available , using the function create_debian_pkg_list</div><div><br></div><div>clean_pkg_list parses all the files, using insert_pkg. If insert_pkg doesn't find the file in pmap, it will return 0 and package falls into @unknown.</div><div><br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-8186368780614258757gmail-m_6923987630502701230gmail_signature"><div><br></div><div>So, I think this can be summarised as, if the package isn't declared in $FAI_ROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available, it will be removed from the installation list.</div><div><br></div><div>If that's correct, then I'm slightly confused, because /var/lib/dpkg/available isn't a full list of packages available for installation via apt.</div><div>Is there something I'm missing in FAI that normally populates that file with more of the packages from apt sources?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Cheers,<div>Just</div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 08:02, Justin Cattle <<a href="mailto:j@ocado.com" target="_blank">j@ocado.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Apologies, forgot to add that info.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">FAI 5.3.6<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-8186368780614258757gmail-m_6923987630502701230gmail-m_-4824175502370017447gmail_signature"><div>nfsroot is debian squeeze, and building ubuntu trusty in this case</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Cheers,<div>Just</div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 22:37, Thomas Lange <<a href="mailto:lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de" target="_blank">lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">>>>>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 21:59:09 +0000, Justin Cattle <<a href="mailto:j@ocado.com" target="_blank">j@ocado.com</a>> said:<br>
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> This is a FAI system that I haven't used for a while, and I'm not 100% how the config has changed if at all.<br>
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> When it get to task instsoft, it fails to include most of the packages from the package_config files. It includes just a few.<br>
Which FAI version are you using?<br>
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