[Touch-packages] [Bug 1706818] [NEW] mismatched file locking since 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu1 causes race leaving ntp dead on reboot

2017-07-26 Thread Josh Littlefield
Public bug reported: ntpdate and ntp conflict on the NTP well-known-socket. If ntp and ntpdate 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.5 are installed on Xenial, and there are 2 static interfaces configured, most often we find that ntpd is not running after a reboot. When the ntp service is started by systemd,

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1639558] Re: message regarding ignoring 50unattended-upgrades.ucf-dist is annoying

2017-04-13 Thread Josh Littlefield
The patch works around the issue in apt, but isn't the underlying cause the fact that /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades was a confffile in ~0.82.1ubuntu2.3, and is no longer a conffile in ~0.90ubuntu0.3, yet the typical pattern for obsoleting a conffile wasn't performed? So even an