jumpbox setup script doesn't work with xenial stemcell

[dennisjbell]

After upgrading to Xenial in v1.0.3, new users trying to run the setup script see failures:

Error running 'requirements_debian_libs_install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev',
please read /u/jpahl/.rvm/log/1554745481_ruby-2.6.0/package_install_gawk_autoconf_automake_libffi-dev_libgdbm-dev_libsqlite3-dev_libtool_libyaml-dev_sqlite3_libgmp-dev.log
Requirements installation failed with status: 100.
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rubies.travis-ci.org/ubuntu/16.04/x86_64/ruby-2.4.5.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Installing requirements for ubuntu.
Updating system...
Installing required packages: gawk, autoconf, automake, libffi-dev, libgdbm-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libtool, libyaml-dev, sqlite3, libgmp-dev.....
Error running 'requirements_debian_libs_install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev',
please read /u/jpahl/.rvm/log/1554745485_ruby-2.4.5/package_install_gawk_autoconf_automake_libffi-dev_libgdbm-dev_libsqlite3-dev_libtool_libyaml-dev_sqlite3_libgmp-dev.log
Requirements installation failed with status: 100.
Required ruby-2.4.5 is not installed.

[krutten]

More details on the error

++ command_to_run=(__rvm_sudo -p "%p password required for '$*': " "${command_to_run[@]}")
++ __rvm_sudo -p '%p password required for '\''apt-get --no-install-recommends --yes install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev'\'': ' apt-get --no-install-recommends --yes install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev
++ command sudo -p '%p password required for '\''apt-get --no-install-recommends --yes install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev'\'': ' apt-get --no-install-recommends --yes install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev
++ sudo -p '%p password required for '\''apt-get --no-install-recommends --yes install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev'\'': ' apt-get --no-install-recommends --yes install gawk autoconf automake libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-dev sqlite3 libgmp-dev
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgmpxx4ldbl libsqlite3-0 libyaml-0-2
Suggested packages:
  autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc gawk-doc gmp-doc libgmp10-doc
  libmpfr-dev sqlite3-doc libtool-doc gfortran | fortran95-compiler gcj-jdk
  libyaml-doc
Recommended packages:
  libltdl-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  autoconf automake gawk libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl
  libsqlite3-dev libtool libyaml-0-2 libyaml-dev sqlite3
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libsqlite3-0
1 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/3,465 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 unknown group 'messagebus' in statoverride file
W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
++ return 100
++ return 100

[jhunt]

What's in /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride?

[jhunt]

This might be related to cloudfoundry-community/jumpbox-boshrelease#68

[krutten]

cat /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride

root crontab 2755 /usr/bin/crontab
root messagebus 4754 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

[krutten]

ls -la /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root 110 42992 Jan 12 2017 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

[jhunt]

Yes, at some point the messagebus group was mistakenly deleted. I believe this is an OS thing, unrelated to anything we are doing (aside from using apt). Have you found a reliable way to reproduce this?

[jhunt]

@krutten bump

[krutten]

More detailed notes added to cloudfoundry-community/jumpbox-boshrelease#68