package kvm-pxe 5.4.4-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new': No such file or directory / deferred fsync failed due to non-existent file .dpkg-new

I've the same issue in amd64

On my system i've: /usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin

after unpacking the package i also get usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin, wondering why is it looking for .dpkg-new

Can you please try the package in lucid-proposed?

daniel@bert:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install kvm-pxe
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kvm-pxe
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 113kB of archives.
After this operation, 205kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-proposed/universe kvm-pxe 5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1 [113kB]
Fetched 113kB in 0s (282kB/s)
(Reading database ... 170487 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kvm-pxe (from .../kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
daniel@bert:~$

same here

I'm running with lucid-proposed enabled; the error I'm getting is the same:

unable to open '/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new': No such file or directory

Incidentally, I don't know why this is filed against "etherboot"; I'm triyng to install "kvm-pxe" in order that KVM virtual machines have networking capability.

AfC

daniel@miyazaki:~$ apt-cache showsrc kvm-pxe | head -n 2
Package: etherboot
Binary: etherboot, kvm-pxe
daniel@miyazaki:~$

Could you please reproduce with the command:
LANG=C dpkg -D111 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dpkg-i_kvm-pxe.log
and attach the resulting log file ?
Thanks.

Here is the result from:

LANG=C dpkg -D111 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dpkg-i_kvm-pxe.log

Thanks for the log.

The error is triggered by the deferred fsync.
---
D000100: deferred extract needs rename
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin' tmp=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new'
D000100: deferred extract needs fsync
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--install):
 unable to open '/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new': No such file or directory

adding a dpkg task.

jaime@jaime-desktop:~$ sudo LANG=C dpkg -D111 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dpkg-i_kvm-pxe.log
[sudo] password for jaime:
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci'
(Reading database ... 212625 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kvm-pxe 5.4.4-1ubuntu1 (using .../kvm-pxe_5.4.4-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
Unpacking replacement kvm-pxe ...
D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`.' Mode=755 owner=0.0 Type=53(d) ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`/.' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/.' tmp=`/..dpkg-tmp' new=`/..dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject Directory exists
D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`./usr' Mode=755 owner=0.0 Type=53(d) ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`/usr' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr' tmp=`/usr.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject Directory exists
D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`./usr/share' Mode=755 owner=0.0 Type=53(d) ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`/usr/share' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/share' tmp=`/usr/share.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/share.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject Directory exists
D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`./usr/share/kvm' Mode=755 owner=0.0 Type=53(d) ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`/usr/share/kvm' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/share/kvm' tmp=`/usr/share/kvm.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/share/kvm.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject Directory exists
D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`./usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin' Mode=644 owner=0.0 Type=48(-) ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin' tmp=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new'
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-tmp'
D000100: tarobject NormalFile[01] open size=32768
D000100: tarobject nondirectory, `link' backup
D000100: tarobject done and installation deferred
D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`./usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin' Mode=644 owner=0.0 Type=48(-) ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin' tmp=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin.dpkg-new'
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin.dpkg-tmp'
D000100: tarobject NormalFile[01] open size=32768
D000100: tarobject nondirectory, `link' backup
D000100: tarobject done and installation deferred
D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`./usr/share/kvm/pxe-pcnet.bin' Mode=644 owner=0.0 Type=48(-) ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-pcnet.bin' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/share/kvm/pxe-pcnet.bin' tmp=`/usr/share/kvm/px...

Ok, this is weird: the package just installed on a lucid-server system AND installed on a fresh lucid-desktop system, but won't install (with the above noise) on my upgraded from karmic-desktop lucid-desktop system.

AfC

Fix for me was to purge (dpkg -P) and reinstall etherboot and kvm-pxe and all qemu packages.

>> Fix for me was to purge (dpkg -P) and reinstall etherboot and kvm-pxe and all qemu packages.

did not help in my case

Same for me as for Andrew: happens on upgraded Karmic (without etherboot installed, and installing it didn't help), installs cleanly on fresh-install Lucid.

Ok, so this is what fixed it for me: removing /usr/share/kvm made package installable. The situation is like this:
  - in /usr/share "kvm" is a symbolic link to "qemu" which is a real directory
  - kvm-pxe installs files into "/usr/share/kvm" and symlinks into /usr/share/qemu, thus trying to overwrite files it just installed

Not sure why it worked on my "fresh" Lucid system (the situation seems to be identical), but links definitely need to go out of the kvm-pxe package.

So now I've hit this on fresh Lucid systems.

My hunch is that it's a result of package installation ordering.

Danillo's workaround at comment #18 does "work" to allow kvm-pxe to install.

AfC

It's not a dpkg issue, the problem is that two files are installed at the same place because of the /usr/share/kvm symlink.

etherboot, kvm-pxe need to be be better coordinated and should not install files through packaged symlinks.

Thanks to everyone for contributing to this bug report. However, some time ago kvm-pxe moved to installing only under /usr/share/qemu. If anyone still sees such errors please re-open this bug.