I upgraded to 0.9.12.1 on 16th October (from logs). That means I'm
reproducing this issue with 0.9.12.1.


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Pauli wrote:
> > Package: python-apt
> > Version: 2:0.9.1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I noticed that unattended-upgrade seem to fail randomly with string to
> > float conversion exception. I made some modifications to
> > unattended-upgrade to print the exception stack trace which points
> > python-apt status update parsing code.
> >
> > Exception happened during upgrade.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 382, in
> upgrade_in_minimal_steps
> >     res  cache.commit(install_progressiprogress)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 498, in
> commit
> >     res  self.install_archives(pm, install_progress)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 462, in
> install_archives
> >     res  install_progress.run(pm)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line
> 206, in run
> >     res  self.wait_child()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line
> 276, in wait_child
> >     self.update_interface()
> >   File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 172, in update_interface
> >     apt.progress.base.InstallProgress.update_interface(self)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line
> 253, in update_interface
> >     if float(percent) ! self.percent or status_str ! self.status:
> > ValueError: could not convert string to float: amd64
>
> You ran that upgrade with APT 0.9.12, right? This was fixed in 0.9.12.1, so
> you cannot reproduce it anymore...
>
> --
> Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
>
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>
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