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Templates fail to update due to buster "oldstable" status #721
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@eloquence Well that's rather reassuring. However, I was able to reproduce this problem just now in a dev environment. The significant variable seems to be whether the TemplateVM RPM was freshly installed. Would appreciate if someone would try to repro with the following STR:
If provisioning completes successfully, great! If you see the error reported above, however, please document here. |
Sure, I can give that a try... 🕐 🕑 🕒 |
I'm encountering #514 again on a fresh install, will see if rebooting resolves. |
After reboot, able to reproduce on fresh install. I also see the error (and an interactive prompt) when manually running |
Huh, thanks for confirming, @eloquence. So it seems like the strongest correlation is the age of the apt cache: if it's months old (as a fresh TemplateVM RPM would be on first run), then the oldstable prompt raises an error. For machines that have regularly been running the updater, however, that didn't happen. I wonder why that is? Either way, it's definitely a problem for clean installs, so will continue to work on a fix. |
The good news is that it's fairly easy to work around: after entering 'Y' in response to the confirmation prompt (which appears after running |
During a clean install in support of #717, I encountered this failure:
That same error will bite us on the updater runs, blocking upgrades until resolved.
There's an option we can use to resolve:
apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update
but we'll need to make sure we can run that prior to any other apt commands.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: