Latest Ubuntu 14.04 Fails to install kernel headers

[philk]

The latest version of the ubuntu-14.04 box (as downloaded today) fails if you need to install linux-headers-generic (unspecified version) because the package doesn't exist upstream for 3.13.0.37.44.

I have an older box from Oct 17 10:55 that works fine with the same recipes (we discovered this on a new workstation). Copying that box to the new workstation works just fine.

Working box ohai kernel:

  "release": "3.13.0-24-generic",
  "version": "#46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:11:08 UTC 2014",

Failing box ohai kernel:

  "release": "3.13.0-24-generic",
  "version": "#47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014",

As you may notice from that ohai output...it makes no sense. It is, however, easily reproducible with a recipe that has:

apt_package "linux-headers-generic" do
  action :install
end

Here's the relevant part of our log output

       Recipe: usb_redirect::client
         * apt_package[libusb-dev] action install
           - install version 2:0.1.12-23.3ubuntu1 of package libusb-dev
         * apt_package[linux-headers-generic] action install

           ================================================================================
           Error executing action `install` on resource 'apt_package[linux-headers-generic]'
           ================================================================================

           Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
           ------------------------------------
           Expected process to exit with [0], but received '100'
           ---- Begin output of apt-get -q -y install linux-headers-generic=3.13.0.37.44 ----
           STDOUT: Reading package lists...
           Building dependency tree...
           Reading state information...
           The following extra packages will be installed:

           The following NEW packages will be installed:
             linux-headers-3.13.0-37 linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic
             linux-headers-generic
           0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
           Need to get 9617 kB of archives.
           After this operation, 76.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
           Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main linux-headers-3.13.0-37 all 3.13.0-37.64 [8893 kB]
           Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic amd64 3.13.0-37.64 [722 kB]
           Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main linux-headers-generic amd64 3.13.0.37.44
             404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
           Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main linux-headers-generic amd64 3.13.0.37.44
             404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
           Fetched 9615 kB in 13s (708 kB/s)


           E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
           ---- End output of apt-get -q -y install linux-headers-generic=3.13.0.37.44 ----
           Ran apt-get -q -y install linux-headers-generic=3.13.0.37.44 returned 100

       Resource Declaration:
           ---------------------
           # In /tmp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/usb_redirect/recipes/client.rb

            28:   package pkg do
            29:     action :install
            30:   end
        31: end

           Compiled Resource:
           ------------------
       # Declared in /tmp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/usb_redirect/recipes/client.rb:28:in `block in from_file'

           apt_package("linux-headers-generic") do
             action [:install]
             retries 0
             retry_delay 2
             default_guard_interpreter :default
             package_name "linux-headers-generic"
             version "3.13.0.37.44"
         timeout 900
             declared_type :package
             cookbook_name "usb_redirect"
             recipe_name "client"
           end


       Running handlers:
       [2015-04-01T18:24:17+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
       Running handlers complete
       [2015-04-01T18:24:17+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
       [2015-04-01T18:24:17+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/kitchen/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
       Chef Client failed. 15 resources updated in 170.682258984 seconds
       [2015-04-01T18:24:17+00:00] ERROR: apt_package[linux-headers-generic] (usb_redirect::client line 28) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '100'
       ---- Begin output of apt-get -q -y install linux-headers-generic=3.13.0.37.44 ----
       STDOUT: Reading package lists...
       Building dependency tree...
       Reading state information...
       The following extra packages will be installed:
         linux-headers-3.13.0-37 linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic
       The following NEW packages will be installed:
         linux-headers-3.13.0-37 linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic
         linux-headers-generic
       0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
       Need to get 9617 kB of archives.
       After this operation, 76.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
       Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main linux-headers-3.13.0-37 all 3.13.0-37.64 [8893 kB]
       Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic amd64 3.13.0-37.64 [722 kB]
       Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main linux-headers-generic amd64 3.13.0.37.44
         404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
       Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main linux-headers-generic amd64 3.13.0.37.44
         404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
       Fetched 9615 kB in 13s (708 kB/s)
       STDERR: E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-meta/linux-headers-generic_3.13.0.37.44_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]

       E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
       ---- End output of apt-get -q -y install linux-headers-generic=3.13.0.37.44 ----
       Ran apt-get -q -y install linux-headers-generic=3.13.0.37.44 returned 100
       [2015-04-01T18:24:19+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

[juliandunn]

You need to apt-get update before running package resources on Ubuntu operating systems. The default recipe in the [http://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt](apt cookbook) will do this for you.

[philk]

Wow...this'll teach me to file issues before coffee. That plus one other fix to one of our recipes (forcing the version of linux-headers-generic based on ohai info) was the solution. Thanks!