This is ridiculous, why has this not been fixed yet? I manage around 100 VM's and this problem is causing me serious headaches. I simply haven't got time to go round manually autoremoving old kernals and it would be foolish not to leave unattended security updates on.
Just because there are only ~34 people who have bothered to write on this thread does not mean that others with 13.04 or greater are not affected, I think most will be eventually. It is correct to say that the documentation is wrong; Unattended-Upgrade ::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true"; is not currently equivalent to apt-get autoremove but that is the expected behaviour (I imagine most people who install ubuntu don't want to have to consider how to remove old kernals so this should be the default behaviour) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1267059 Title: "Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies" does not work Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I have a system that runs unattended-upgrades just fine. Now i want to automate removal of old kernels and kernel header packages that are accumulating otherwise. So i set 'Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused- Dependencies "true";'. But it doesn't work. ---- Details: Lots of stuff pending autoremoval: $ apt-get --assume-no autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED linux-headers-3.2.0-38 linux-headers-3.2.0-38-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-39 linux-headers-3.2.0-39-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-40 linux-headers-3.2.0-40-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-41 linux-headers-3.2.0-41-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-43 linux-headers-3.2.0-43-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-44 linux-headers-3.2.0-44-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-45 linux-headers-3.2.0-45-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-48 linux-headers-3.2.0-48-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-51 linux-headers-3.2.0-51-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-52 linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-53 linux-headers-3.2.0-53-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-54 linux-headers-3.2.0-54-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-55 linux-headers-3.2.0-55-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-56 linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic linux-image-3.2.0-39-generic linux-image-3.2.0-40-generic linux-image-3.2.0-41-generic linux-image-3.2.0-43-generic linux-image-3.2.0-44-generic linux-image-3.2.0-45-generic linux-image-3.2.0-48-generic linux-image-3.2.0-51-generic linux- image-3.2.0-52-generic linux-image-3.2.0-53-generic linux-image-3.2.0-54-generic linux-image-3.2.0-55-generic linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 41 to remove and 13 not upgraded. After this operation, 2,893 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? N Abort. Note that the majority of these packages have been installed by unattended-upgrades from precise-security. According to the comments within/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended- upgrades, this should automate autoremoval: // Do automatic removal of new unused dependencies after the upgrade // (equivalent to apt-get autoremove) Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true"; but nothing happens (note the line "Packages that are auto removed: '' ": $ unattended-upgrades --debug --dry-run Initial blacklisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=precise-security'] adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'accountsservice' version:'0.6.15-2ubuntu9.6.1'>' adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libaccountsservice0' version:'0.6.15-2ubuntu9.6.1'>' adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm-intel1' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>' adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm-nouveau1a' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>' adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm-radeon1' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>' adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm2' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>' Checking: bc (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: grub-common (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: grub-pc (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: grub-pc-bin (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: grub2-common (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: iproute (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: landscape-common (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"]) pkgs that look like they should be upgraded: Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) blacklist: [] Packages that are auto removed: '' InstCount=0 DelCount=0 BrokenCout=0 No packages found that can be upgraded unattended ---- I am using unattended-upgrades-0.76ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1267059/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
