Fix AMD GPU driver installation failure on Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy)#652
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Fix AMD GPU driver installation failure on Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy)#652
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Detect Ubuntu codename from /etc/os-release and resolve the correct ROCm installation URL from a built-in mapping (focal->5.5, jammy->6.3.3). This fixes BabelStream failures on Ubuntu 22.04 where ROCm 5.5's amdgpu-dkms module fails to build on kernel 6.8.x, leaving dpkg broken and crashing VirtualClient repeatedly. Changes: - Add SupportedInstallationFiles codename-to-URL mapping - Add DetectOsVersionCodenameAsync and ResolveLinuxInstallationFile - Add dpkg cleanup commands for broken amdgpu-dkms package state - Fix bashrc path for root users via GetUserHomePath - Add unit tests for codename resolution, fallback, and error cases Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
.NET ProcessStartInfo on Linux does not handle single quotes for argument grouping - only double quotes work. The previous bash -c commands with single quotes caused argv to be split incorrectly, resulting in 'unexpected EOF' errors. Also removed 2>/dev/null redirects since stderr is captured by the process proxy anyway. Verified on Ubuntu 22.04 VM: dpkg cleanup runs successfully, codename detection resolves to jammy, and ROCm 6.3.3 driver installation begins correctly. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Problem
The AMD GPU driver installation fails on Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) Azure VMs
because it hardcodes a ROCm 5.5 driver URL targeting Ubuntu 20.04
(focal). The amdgpu-dkms kernel module from ROCm 5.5 cannot build
against kernel 6.8.x, leaving dpkg in a broken state that poisons all
subsequent apt-get commands. VirtualClient retries 6 times and then
gives up.
Changes
AMDGPUDriverInstallation.cs
/etc/os-release during InitializeAsync
to the correct ROCm driver URLs (focal → ROCm
5.5, jammy → ROCm 6.3.3)
LinuxInstallationFile parameter as override if provided, otherwise
auto-resolves from the built-in mapping
in bash -c wrappers (.NET ProcessStartInfo on Linux does not handle
single quotes for argument grouping)
dpkg cleanup commands
AMDGPUDriverInstallationTests.cs
profile parameter override, unsupported codename error
Validation
Tested on an Azure VM (Standard_D2s_v5, Ubuntu 22.04 jammy, kernel
6.8.0-1044-azure):
6.3.3 URL resolved: wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.3.3/
ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_6.3.60303-1_all.deb
6.10.5 on kernel 6.8.0 (the exact step that was failing with ROCm 5.5)