As far as I can tell, this only happens during deployment when installing the ubuntu-desktop-minimal (haven't tried with the full-fat ubuntu-desktop package) via the new Ubuntu automated server install method.
So probably is an Ubuntu-specific issue. I will try to do more testing and narrow down the exact combination of events causing this. On 01/08/2022 10:23, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Very odd... There is nothing special about this config file (it's installed > like every other) and this works absolutely fine on Debian and even my Ubuntu > VM. > So, something very odd and possibly uBUNTU-SPECIFIC is going on here... > -- James Paton-Smith Linux Support Officer EBI Systems Application Group, South Building, Studio 12 European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD +44 (0)1223 494308 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1983112 Title: Appstream does not install config file Status in appstream package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After performing an Ubuntu automated server install, and installing the ubuntu-desktop-minimal package (which includes appstream as a dependency) then the snap-store, the snap-store will fail to display search results for .deb packages in the Ubuntu apt repositories. This is due to a missing config file (/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50appstream) which is supposed to be installed as part of the appstream package. The issue can be fixed by re-installing appstream with the following command-line: apt-get -y install --reinstall -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" appstream ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: appstream 0.15.2-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-41.44-generic 5.15.39 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./boot/grub/grub.cfg CasperMD5CheckResult: fail CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Jul 29 15:25:44 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-07-27 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220421) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: appstream UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1983112/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
