Bug description
DEB packages have unneeded circular dependencies, causing difficulties for APT under some circumstances depending on what the APT solver decides to do.
Expected behavior
No circular dependencies, and no APT errors.
Steps to reproduce
Minimized to this dockerfile.
FROM ubuntu:24.04
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl gpg
RUN curl -fL https://repo.netdata.cloud/netdatabot.gpg.key | gpg --yes --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/netdata.gpg
RUN cat >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/netdata.list <<EOF
deb https://repo.netdata.cloud/repos/stable/ubuntu noble/
EOF
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y equivs ubuntu-standard
RUN cat >control <<EOF
Package: my
Depends: falkon, netdata, netdata-plugin-freeipmi
Essential: yes
EOF
RUN equivs-build control
RUN apt-get install -y ./my_1.0_all.deb
Currently fails with this error:
45.15 Selecting previously unselected package netdata.
45.18 Preparing to unpack .../netdata_2.9.0_amd64.deb ...
45.19 Unpacking netdata (2.9.0) ...
45.54 Selecting previously unselected package netdata-dashboard.
45.55 Preparing to unpack .../netdata-dashboard_2.9.0_amd64.deb ...
45.56 Unpacking netdata-dashboard (2.9.0) ...
45.74 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of netdata-dashboard:
45.74 netdata-dashboard depends on netdata (= 2.9.0); however:
45.74 Package netdata is not configured yet.
45.74
45.74 dpkg: error processing package netdata-dashboard (--configure):
45.74 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
45.75 Errors were encountered while processing:
45.75 netdata-dashboard
45.79 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Dockerfile:20
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18 |
19 | RUN equivs-build control
20 | >>> RUN apt-get install -y ./my_1.0_all.deb
21 |
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ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get install -y ./my_1.0_all.deb" did not complete successfully: exit code: 100
Installation method
manual setup of official DEB/RPM packages
System info
/etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
/etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
/etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
/etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS"
/etc/os-release:PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS"
/etc/os-release:NAME="Ubuntu"
/etc/os-release:VERSION_ID="24.04"
/etc/os-release:VERSION="24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat)"
/etc/os-release:VERSION_CODENAME=noble
/etc/os-release:ID=ubuntu
/etc/os-release:ID_LIKE=debian
/etc/os-release:UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
/etc/os-release:LOGO=ubuntu-logo
Netdata build info
time=2026-03-13T16:36:27.890+01:00 comm=netdata source=daemon level=notice errno="2, No such file or directory" tid=453908 msg="CONFIG: cannot load user config '/etc/netdata/stream.conf'. Will try stock config."
time=2026-03-13T16:36:27.891+01:00 comm=netdata source=collector level=error errno="13, Permission denied" tid=453908 msg="Runtime directory '/tmp/netdata' is not writable, falling back to '/tmp'"
Packaging:
Netdata Version ____________________________________________ : v2.9.0
Installation Type __________________________________________ : binpkg-deb
Package Architecture _______________________________________ : x86_64
Package Distro _____________________________________________ : ubuntu 24.04
Configure Options __________________________________________ : cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_C_STANDARD=11 -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=14 -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=' -fexceptions -fno-omit-frame-pointer -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=' -fexceptions -fno-omit-frame-pointer -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' -DCMAKE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS='_GNU_SOURCE' -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=' -fexceptions -rdynamic' -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS=''
Default Directories:
User Configurations ________________________________________ : /etc/netdata
Stock Configurations _______________________________________ : /usr/lib/netdata/conf.d
Ephemeral Databases (metrics data, metadata) _______________ : /var/cache/netdata
Permanent Databases ________________________________________ : /var/lib/netdata
Plugins ____________________________________________________ : /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d
Static Web Files ___________________________________________ : /usr/share/netdata/web
Log Files __________________________________________________ : /var/log/netdata
Lock Files _________________________________________________ : /var/lib/netdata/lock
Home _______________________________________________________ : /var/lib/netdata
Operating System:
Kernel _____________________________________________________ : Linux
Kernel Version _____________________________________________ : 6.8.0-101-lowlatency
Operating System ___________________________________________ : Ubuntu
Operating System ID ________________________________________ : ubuntu
Operating System ID Like ___________________________________ : debian
Operating System Version ___________________________________ : 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat)
Operating System Version ID ________________________________ : none
Detection __________________________________________________ : /etc/os-release
Hardware:
CPU Cores __________________________________________________ : 8
CPU Frequency ______________________________________________ : 3000000000
RAM Bytes __________________________________________________ : 16697470976
Disk Capacity ______________________________________________ : 480103981056
CPU Architecture ___________________________________________ : x86_64
Virtualization Technology __________________________________ : none
Virtualization Detection ___________________________________ : systemd-detect-virt
Container:
Container __________________________________________________ : none
Container Detection ________________________________________ : systemd-detect-virt
Container Orchestrator _____________________________________ : none
Container Operating System _________________________________ : none
Container Operating System ID ______________________________ : none
Container Operating System ID Like _________________________ : none
Container Operating System Version _________________________ : none
Container Operating System Version ID ______________________ : none
Container Operating System Detection _______________________ : none
Features:
Built For __________________________________________________ : Linux
Netdata Cloud ______________________________________________ : YES
Health (trigger alerts and send notifications) _____________ : YES
Streaming (stream metrics to parent Netdata servers) _______ : YES
Back-filling (of higher database tiers) ____________________ : YES
Replication (fill the gaps of parent Netdata servers) ______ : YES
Streaming and Replication Compression ______________________ : YES (zstd lz4 gzip)
Contexts (index all active and archived metrics) ___________ : YES
Tiering (multiple dbs with different metrics resolution) ___ : YES (5)
Machine Learning ___________________________________________ : YES
Memory Allocator ___________________________________________ : system
Database Engines:
dbengine (compression) _____________________________________ : YES (zstd lz4)
alloc ______________________________________________________ : YES
ram ________________________________________________________ : YES
none _______________________________________________________ : YES
Connectivity Capabilities:
ACLK (Agent-Cloud Link: MQTT over WebSockets over TLS) _____ : YES
static (Netdata internal web server) _______________________ : YES
WebRTC (experimental) ______________________________________ : NO
Native HTTPS (TLS Support) _________________________________ : YES
TLS Host Verification ______________________________________ : YES
Libraries:
LZ4 (extremely fast lossless compression algorithm) ________ : YES
ZSTD (fast, lossless compression algorithm) ________________ : YES
zlib (lossless data-compression library) ___________________ : YES
Brotli (generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm) ____ : NO
protobuf (platform-neutral data serialization protocol) ____ : YES (system)
OpenSSL (cryptography) _____________________________________ : YES
libdatachannel (stand-alone WebRTC data channels) __________ : NO
JSON-C (lightweight JSON manipulation) _____________________ : YES
libcap (Linux capabilities system operations) ______________ : NO
libcrypto (cryptographic functions) ________________________ : YES
libyaml (library for parsing and emitting YAML) ____________ : YES
libmnl (library for working with netfilter) ________________ : YES
stacktraces (library for getting stack traces) _____________ : libbacktrace (mmap, threads, data)
Plugins:
apps (monitor processes) ___________________________________ : YES
cgroups (monitor containers and VMs) _______________________ : YES
cgroup-network (associate interfaces to CGROUPS) ___________ : YES
proc (monitor Linux systems) _______________________________ : YES
tc (monitor Linux network QoS) _____________________________ : YES
diskspace (monitor Linux mount points) _____________________ : YES
freebsd (monitor FreeBSD systems) __________________________ : NO
macos (monitor MacOS systems) ______________________________ : NO
windows (monitor Windows systems) __________________________ : NO
statsd (collect custom application metrics) ________________ : YES
timex (check system clock synchronization) _________________ : YES
idlejitter (check system latency and jitter) _______________ : YES
bash (support shell data collection jobs - charts.d) _______ : YES
debugfs (kernel debugging metrics) _________________________ : YES
cups (monitor printers and print jobs) _____________________ : YES
ebpf (monitor system calls) ________________________________ : YES
freeipmi (monitor enterprise server H/W) ___________________ : YES
network-viewer (monitor TCP/UDP IPv4/6 sockets) ____________ : YES
systemd-journal (monitor journal logs) _____________________ : YES
windows-events (monitor Windows events) ____________________ : NO
nfacct (gather netfilter accounting) _______________________ : YES
perf (collect kernel performance events) ___________________ : YES
slabinfo (monitor kernel object caching) ___________________ : YES
Xen ________________________________________________________ : YES
Xen VBD Error Tracking _____________________________________ : NO
Exporters:
AWS Kinesis ________________________________________________ : NO
GCP PubSub _________________________________________________ : NO
MongoDB ____________________________________________________ : NO
Prometheus (OpenMetrics) Exporter __________________________ : YES
Prometheus Remote Write ____________________________________ : YES
Graphite ___________________________________________________ : YES
Graphite HTTP / HTTPS ______________________________________ : YES
JSON _______________________________________________________ : YES
JSON HTTP / HTTPS __________________________________________ : YES
OpenTSDB ___________________________________________________ : YES
OpenTSDB HTTP / HTTPS ______________________________________ : YES
All Metrics API ____________________________________________ : YES
Shell (use metrics in shell scripts) _______________________ : YES
Debug/Developer Features:
Trace All Netdata Allocations (with charts) ________________ : NO
Developer Mode (more runtime checks, slower) _______________ : NO
Runtime Information:
Profile ____________________________________________________ : standalone
Stream Parent (accept data from Children) __________________ : NO
Stream Child (send data to a Parent) _______________________ : NO
Total System Memory ________________________________________ : 16697470976
Available System Memory ____________________________________ : 13129883648Additional info
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Bug description
DEB packages have unneeded circular dependencies, causing difficulties for APT under some circumstances depending on what the APT solver decides to do.
Expected behavior
No circular dependencies, and no APT errors.
Steps to reproduce
Minimized to this dockerfile.
Currently fails with this error:
Installation method
manual setup of official DEB/RPM packages
System info
Netdata build info
Additional info
No response