Ubuntu 24.04 image self cancels the build if you install the wrong package

[randombit]

Description

Installing certain packages causes apt to try to restart services; when this happens, the build is cancelled.

This is not isolated; several people have (incorrectly) reported this in #9959 if you check the last 3-4 comments it's people hitting this issue, not the 4 minute timeout which was the original report.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

apt-get install valgrind: https://github.com/randombit/botan/actions/runs/9374504770/job/25810702531?pr=4098

apt-get install g++-multilib linux-libc-dev libc6-dev-i386: https://github.com/randombit/botan/actions/runs/9374504770/job/25810703776?pr=4098

Is it regression?

Works in 22.04

Expected behavior

The build runs rather than self-cancelling

Actual behavior

This appears in the log

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.39-0ubuntu8.2) ...

Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.

Restarting services...
 systemctl restart chrony.service containerd.service cron.service haveged.service hv-kvp-daemon.service multipathd.service packagekit.service php8.3-fpm.service polkit.service rsyslog.service runner-provisioner.service systemd-journald.service systemd-networkd.service systemd-resolved.service systemd-udevd.service udisks2.service walinuxagent.service
Error: The operation was canceled.

Then the job is cancelled.

Repro steps

Perform somewhere in your CI scripts

apt-get update
apt-get install valgrind

Other packages also work, it just needs to be something that will pull in an update which then cause apt to try to restart services.

[randombit]

export NEEDRESTART_MODE=l

will cause apt to skip the automatic service restarts, allowing the build to continue

[sergei-pyshnoi]

duplicate #9937