Virtual Machine with Uvitools Problem

I would like to ask you something. I need to create a VM machine with Ubuntu Bionic because there is a software that I need to test but it is just works in Ubuntu Bionic and I don't want to change my version. I decided to use uvtool to create the virtual machine, but I keep receiving an error and I don't know why. I follow this steps but when I enter the next command uvt-kvm create vm1 to create the virtual machine I receive this error:

ubuntu-distro-info: Header 'version,codename,series,created,release,eol,eol-server,eol-esm'
in file '/usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv' does not match excatly
'version,codename,series,created,release,eol,eol-server'.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/uvt-kvm", line 35, in <module> uvtool.libvirt.kvm.main_cli_wrapper(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/uvtool/libvirt/kvm.py", line 717, in main_cli_wrapper main(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/uvtool/libvirt/kvm.py", line 684, in main default=["release=%s" % get_lts_series()], File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/uvtool/libvirt/kvm.py", line 418, in get_lts_series output = subprocess.check_output(['distro-info', '--lts'], close_fds=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 574, in check_output raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '[u'distro-info', u'--lts']' returned non-zero exit status 1`

I have checked the ubuntu.csv file but I found nothing strange in the file.

Ubuntu.csv

Thank you for your help, I hope you can help me.

Update

This is the output of the apt-cache policy distro-info distro-info-data command, thanks for the help

distro-info: Installed: 0.18~ubuntu16.04.1 Candidate: 0.18~ubuntu16.04.1 Version table: *** 0.18~ubuntu16.04.1 500 500 xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.14ubuntu0.1 500 500 xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 0.14build1 500 500 xenial/main amd64 Packages
distro-info-data: Installed: 0.28ubuntu0.13 Candidate: 0.28ubuntu0.13 Version table: *** 0.28ubuntu0.13 500 500 xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 xenial-updates/main i386 Packages 500 xenial-security/main amd64 Packages 500 xenial-security/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.28 500 500 xenial/main amd64 Packages 500 xenial/main i386 Packages

1 Answer

you have an error when running the command

$ distro-info --lts

The esm fields got added a while ago and your system seems to have a mismatch between the data file (containing the data) and the program that reads it. From your log one can assume the .csv is new but the tool is old.

Please check your packages if they are both on the latest version

$ sudo apt update
$ apt-cache policy distro-info distro-info-data

If not please update them and it should work again.

In case you don't want to care about distro-info you might also specify the release yourself, then uvtool will not call distro-info. As an example the more explicit uvtool calls:

$ uvt-simplestreams-libvirt --verbose sync --source arch=amd64 label=daily release=focal
$ uvt-kvm create --password ubuntu f-test1 arch=amd64 release=focal label=daily

Or you can instead of uvtool use the newer tool multipass