** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ It is possible for unattended-upgrade to be unsuccessful when encountering
some packages and conffiles in them. However, manual installation of the
packages is possible without encountering a conffile prompt.
+
+ [Test Case]
+ A specific package which creates this situation has not been found so a
regression test of installing Precise / Lucid, then instal ling
unattended-upgrades and running it manually (unattended-upgrade --debug) should
be sufficient.
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+ This fix has been in quantal since June 2012 with no regressions reported.
+
On severa hundredl of our Ubuntu machines, we have unattended upgrades
active. Over the weekend, this started reporting on all machines with
dhcpcd installed that it could not upgrade that package due to a
conffile prompt. This looks very similar to #773007 and #336558, both
of which are marked as fixed.
On one of the machines, I've run unattended-upgrades --debug, and
attached the output below. The MD5 sums seem to match (which is a
relief - I didn't think I was modifying these files), so I don't know
why the conffile prompt is being detected. If I run apt-get safe-
upgrade on its own, it successfully upgrades the package with no
prompting.
- ProblemType: Bug
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
+ ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.55ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-server 2.6.32.49+drm33.21
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
- Date: Mon Feb 20 10:06:00 2012
- InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
(20100816.2)
+ Date: Mon Feb 20 10:06:00 2012InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS
"Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
- SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
- PATH=(custom, no user)
- LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
- SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
+ SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
+ PATH=(custom, no user)
+ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Precise)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)
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unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt
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