ps doesn't support "thcount" format specifier on Xenial

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Hello Adrien, or anyone else affected,

Accepted procps into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Verified according to test case from description:

ubuntu@xenial:~$ dpkg -l | grep procps
ii procps 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.5 amd64 /proc file system utilities

ubuntu@xenial:~$ ps -o thcount
THCNT
    1
    1

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.5) for xenial have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

apport/2.20.1-0ubuntu2.21 (amd64, i386)
openssh/1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.8 (ppc64el, arm64, amd64, i386)
livecd-rootfs/2.408.57 (amd64, i386)
cmake/3.5.1-1ubuntu3 (armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/xenial/update_excuses.html#procps

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

Given this is an extremely simple fix to the procps output flags, none of the autopkgtest regressions seem to be a result of this patch.
More details on each reported regression:

* apport/2.20.1-0ubuntu2.21 (amd64/i386)
- has failed since 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18 according to [0]
- test_sandbox_cache_options: fails due to "ERROR: Package download error, try again later: Untrusted packages:"
- test_get_logind_session: fails due to a systemd-logind error
- test_core_dump_packaged, test_core_dump_unpackaged: fail with "leaves unexpected core file behind"
- test_crash_setuid_drop, test_crash_setuid_keep, test_crash_setuid_nonwritable_cwd, test_lock_symlink: fail to generate reports
- test_run_crash_kernel: fails due to an URL mismatch (http://linux-signed.bugs.example.com/5 vs http://linux.bugs.example.com/5)

* cmake/3.5.1-1ubuntu3 (armhf)
- retest could fix the proxy error
- CTestTestUpload: fails due to resolve error ("squid.internal" proxy)

* livecd-rootfs/2.408.57 (amd64/i386)
- tests timed out, a re-test should clear this regression

* openssh/1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.8 (amd64/arm64/i386)
- failed due to host key certification, re-test should also clear this one

[0] http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/a/apport/xenial/amd64

This bug was fixed in the package procps - 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.5

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procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.5) xenial; urgency=medium

  * d/p/lp1410558-fix-thcount.patch:
    - fix 'thcount' format specifier (LP: #1410558)

 -- Heitor Alves de Siqueira <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:06:26 +0000

The verification of the Stable Release Update for procps has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.