Performing verification for noble. I installed nginx 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3 from -updates:
Running through the policy-rc.d testcase: $ sudo vim /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d #!/bin/sh exit 0 $ sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d $ sudo apt install -y nginx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: nginx-common Suggested packages: fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert The following NEW packages will be installed: nginx nginx-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded. Need to get 551 kB of archives. After this operation, 1596 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 nginx-common all 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3 [31.2 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 nginx amd64 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3 [520 kB] Fetched 551 kB in 2s (255 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package nginx-common. (Reading database ... 74794 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3_all.deb ... Unpacking nginx-common (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package nginx. Preparing to unpack .../nginx_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3) ... Setting up nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3) ... Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xeu nginx.service" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "start" failed. × nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; disabled; preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-06-19 03:21:59 UTC; 6ms ago Docs: man:nginx(8) Process: 1693 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 1ms Jun 19 03:21:59 noble-test systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server... Jun 19 03:21:59 noble-test nginx[1693]: 2025/06/19 03:21:59 [emerg] 1693#1693: open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory) Jun 19 03:21:59 noble-test nginx[1693]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed Jun 19 03:21:59 noble-test systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jun 19 03:21:59 noble-test systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jun 19 03:21:59 noble-test systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. dpkg: error processing package nginx (--configure): installed nginx package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nginx-common: nginx-common depends on nginx (<< 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3.1~); however: Package nginx is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package nginx-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for ufw (0.36.2-6) ... No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: nginx nginx-common needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) policy-rc.d prevents nginx.service from starting due to nginx-common getting stuck because nginx is not installed yet, and vice versa. We can reproduce the issue. Running through the nginx-common testcase: $ sudo apt install nginx-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: nginx Suggested packages: fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert The following NEW packages will be installed: nginx nginx-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/551 kB of archives. After this operation, 1596 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package nginx-common. (Reading database ... 74817 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3_all.deb ... Unpacking nginx-common (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package nginx. Preparing to unpack .../nginx_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3) ... Setting up nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3) ... Setting up nginx-common (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.3) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.36.2-6) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ... ubuntu@noble-test:~$ systemctl status nginx.service ● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-06-19 03:28:33 UTC; 8s ago Docs: man:nginx(8) Process: 1274 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 1276 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1277 (nginx) Tasks: 5 (limit: 4655) Memory: 3.7M (peak: 4.3M) CPU: 13ms CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service ├─1277 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;" ├─1278 "nginx: worker process" ├─1279 "nginx: worker process" ├─1280 "nginx: worker process" └─1281 "nginx: worker process" Jun 19 03:28:33 noble-test systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server... Jun 19 03:28:33 noble-test systemd[1]: Started nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. Due to the circular dependencies, nginx-common pulls in nginx, and ends up starting the service. I then enabled -proposed and installed nginx 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4 Running through the policy-rc.d testcase: $ sudo apt install -t noble-proposed nginx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: nginx-common Suggested packages: fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert The following NEW packages will be installed: nginx nginx-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 564 kB of archives. After this operation, 1596 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 nginx-common all 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4 [43.4 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 nginx amd64 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4 [521 kB] Fetched 564 kB in 2s (237 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package nginx-common. (Reading database ... 74814 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4_all.deb ... Unpacking nginx-common (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... Selecting previously unselected package nginx. Preparing to unpack .../nginx_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... Setting up nginx-common (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nginx.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service. Setting up nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... * Upgrading binary nginx [ OK ] Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.36.2-6) ... ubuntu@noble-test:~$ systemctl status nginx.service ● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-06-19 03:26:03 UTC; 9s ago Docs: man:nginx(8) Process: 1590 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 1592 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1632 (nginx) Tasks: 5 (limit: 4655) Memory: 3.7M (peak: 8.4M) CPU: 22ms CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service ├─1632 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;" ├─1634 "nginx: worker process" ├─1635 "nginx: worker process" ├─1636 "nginx: worker process" └─1637 "nginx: worker process" Jun 19 03:26:03 noble-test systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server... Jun 19 03:26:03 noble-test systemd[1]: Started nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. This is much improved. The apt transaction completes successfully and the service is running as intended. Running through the nginx-common testcase: $ sudo apt install -t noble-proposed nginx-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert The following NEW packages will be installed: nginx-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 43.4 kB of archives. After this operation, 245 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 nginx-common all 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4 [43.4 kB] Fetched 43.4 kB in 1s (33.9 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package nginx-common. (Reading database ... 74817 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4_all.deb ... Unpacking nginx-common (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... Setting up nginx-common (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.36.2-6) ... ubuntu@noble-test:~$ systemctl status nginx.service ○ nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Condition: start condition unmet at Thu 2025-06-19 03:30:23 UTC; 3s ago └─ ConditionFileIsExecutable=/usr/sbin/nginx was not met Docs: man:nginx(8) Jun 19 03:30:23 noble-test systemd[1]: nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionFileIsExecutable=/usr/sbin/nginx). If we then install nginx: $ sudo apt install -t noble-proposed nginx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: nginx 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 521 kB of archives. After this operation, 1352 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 nginx amd64 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4 [521 kB] Fetched 521 kB in 2s (229 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package nginx. (Reading database ... 74837 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nginx_1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... Setting up nginx (1.24.0-2ubuntu7.4) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ... ubuntu@noble-test:~$ systemctl status nginx.service ● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-06-19 03:31:06 UTC; 3s ago Docs: man:nginx(8) Process: 1366 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 1368 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1369 (nginx) Tasks: 5 (limit: 4655) Memory: 3.7M (peak: 4.4M) CPU: 14ms CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service ├─1369 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;" ├─1370 "nginx: worker process" ├─1371 "nginx: worker process" ├─1372 "nginx: worker process" └─1373 "nginx: worker process" Jun 19 03:31:06 noble-test systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server... Jun 19 03:31:06 noble-test systemd[1]: Started nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. The policy-rc.d testcase is fixed, and now when nginx-common is installed it does not start nginx.service unless the nginx package is installed. The package in -proposed fixes the issue, happy to mark verified for noble. ** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-noble ** Tags added: verification-done-noble -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2081308 Title: Resolve circular dependency loop between nginx and nginx-common To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/+bug/2081308/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
