Ubuntu 22.04 installs podman v3.4.4: Errors were encountered while processing golang-github-containers-image and golang-github-containers-common

[jefflill]

Tracking: containers/podman#14367

Installing podman on Ubuntu 22.04 via apt-get fails with:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-lvJTgR/01-golang-github-containers-image_5.16.0-3_all.deb
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-lvJTgR/02-golang-github-containers-common_0.44.4+ds1-1_all.deb
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Important: Podman v3.4.4 is being installed here not the latest v4.1.0 build. Perhaps this is the underlying problem?

[jefflill]

I've hacked NodePrepare.NodeInstallPodman() to ignore errors from the apt-get install podman command for now. Podman seems to be working OK even with these error messages.

We're going to leave this open to track what the Podman team does with this and hopefully I'll be able to revert this hack in the near future.

[jefflill]

The podman team closed this issue and referred me to the Debian package managers. I'm not quite sure how to submit an issue there and I need to move on, so I'm going to leave this be.

The problem seems to be that two google container related dependencies are trying to update the same file (AKA overlapping files). I'm going to try using the -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" option as described here:

actions/runner-images#2703 (comment)

like:

sudo apt-get update -q
sudo apt-get install -yq podman -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"

[jefflill]

We're seeing the same problem installing kubeadm

[jefflill]

The --force-overwrite hack seems to be working.

I'm going to leave this issue open though, so we can check whether this is still necessary in the future.

[vrothberg]

Ubuntu 22.04 ships Podman v3.4 (see https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=podman&searchon=names&suite=jammy&section=all).

@siretart may understand what's going on. Note that it's best to open issues or bugzillas against the specific Linux distribution as there is not much we can do upstream for dowstream packaging issues.

[siretart]

The podman team closed this issue and referred me to the Debian package managers. I'm not quite sure how to submit an issue there and I need to move on, so I'm going to leave this be.

Please follow the instructions at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting for reporting bugs to debian. I highly recommend using the reportbug tool as instructed on that page.

As for the specific error, I'm unable to reproduce this issue with podman run -it --rm ubuntu:22.04 bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y podman' -- that command passes for me just fine.

The error output is probably missing the relevant part that would indicate why the package manager might be having difficulties.

The cases where --force-overwrite is helping indicates a bug in involved pacakges. Most of the time I help users with these symptoms it turns out they were using poorly maintained packages from non-official archives. I'd advise sticking with official packaging repositories -- they tend to undergo stricter QA checks and have higher quality.

[jefflill]

FIXED: We upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and where Podman is on the official mirrors now.