Public bug reported: Yesterday unattended-upgrades required a reboot for kernel updates as expected. But today unattended-upgrades required a reboot even though there were no updates.
2016-09-20 05:20:10,409 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 2016-09-20 05:20:10,410 INFO Initial whitelisted packages: 2016-09-20 05:20:10,411 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script 2016-09-20 05:20:10,411 INFO Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-security', 'o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-updates'] 2016-09-20 05:21:13,118 INFO Packages that will be upgraded: linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev 2016-09-20 05:21:13,119 INFO Writing dpkg log to '/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log' 2016-09-20 05:24:17,405 INFO All upgrades installed 2016-09-20 05:24:24,959 WARNING Found /var/run/reboot-required, rebooting 2016-09-21 05:10:54,080 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 2016-09-21 05:10:54,088 INFO Initial whitelisted packages: 2016-09-21 05:10:54,089 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script 2016-09-21 05:10:54,089 INFO Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-security', 'o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-updates'] 2016-09-21 05:11:02,624 INFO No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending auto-removals 2016-09-21 05:11:02,624 WARNING Found /var/run/reboot-required, rebooting On this machine (16.04 server) unattended-upgrades is configured to reboot automatically. This also happened on another 16.04 server with default unattended- upgrades configuration. It displayed the *******System restart required******* message. The same on a 14.04 server and a 14.04 desktop. Expected behaviour: Not to do an unnecessary reboot. Let me know what other information I can provide. ** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: reboot ** Attachment added: "apport.unattended-upgrades.x41_ij8b.apport" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626345/+attachment/4745785/+files/apport.unattended-upgrades.x41_ij8b.apport -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626345 Title: After rebooting for updates, reboot is still required. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1626345/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs