** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
+ * When chrony is removed the systems default time service is tried to be
+ restored. That was and is systemd-timesyncd.
+ - this was in Debian and Ubuntu since [1]
+
+ * That worked fine when systemd-timesyncd was always installed as it was
+ in the past. But systemd 245.4-2ubuntu1 chnged that and it will no more
+ be installed as it now conflicts.
+
+ * That change in systemd lets chrony upgrade fail in postrm where it tries
+ to start the default again. The Bionic version of the postrm never had
+ the safety ||true as that was never needed in Bionic an SRU would just
+ have been forcing many users into a download they would not have needed.
+
+ * But due to the systemd change in focal we now need that simple change to
+ avoid upgrades breaking.
+
+
+ [1]:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/chrony/-/commit/f4ecee0288b73331a4cfe6687b936fec78be4e15
+
+
+ [Test Case]
+
+ * Take a bionic system with chrony installed.
+ Upgrade to Focal (which at least needs to have systemd 245.4-2ubuntu1 to
+ trigger the issue.
+ TODO: add some more details once exercised once
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+
+ * The change is minimal as it only ignores a potential error that
+ a) is considered safe if it happens
+ b) we now know will happen on a bionic->focal upgrade
+ In addition we also had that change since 19.10.
+
+ [Other Info]
+
+ * This is of some extra urgency as it needs to land in Bionic before
+ upgrading to 20.04 will happen which people are supposed to test
+ now and will be released soon.
+ * Note: In focal we can now stop starting the systemd-timesyncd from
+ chrony as it now takes care in systemd-timesyncd.postinst. This change
+ will get to Focal to silence the warning, but it isn't gating the SRU to
+ bionic (the change we backport is already in >=19.10).
+
+ ---
+
Failed during bionic->focal upgrade
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: chrony 3.2-4ubuntu4.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-97.98-lowlatency 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-97-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 11 10:42:36 2020
DpkgTerminalLog:
- Removing chrony (3.2-4ubuntu4.2) ...
- Job for systemd-timesyncd.service failed because the control process exited
with error code.
- See "systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for
details.
- dpkg: error processing package chrony (--remove):
- installed chrony package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit
status 1
+ Removing chrony (3.2-4ubuntu4.2) ...
+ Job for systemd-timesyncd.service failed because the control process exited
with error code.
+ See "systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for
details.
+ dpkg: error processing package chrony (--remove):
+ installed chrony package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit
status 1
ErrorMessage: installed chrony package post-removal script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.2, python3-minimal,
3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.17, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
RelatedPackageVersions:
- dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3
- apt 2.0.1ubuntu1
+ dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3
+ apt 2.0.1ubuntu1
SourcePackage: chrony
Title: package chrony 3.2-4ubuntu4.2 failed to install/upgrade: installed
chrony package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-11 (0 days ago)
** Changed in: chrony (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Triaged
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