I have same problem. I need to kill unattended-upgrades service manually to shutdown machine. This problem comes in 2017 year.
System is Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654600 Title: unattended-upgrade-shutdown hangs when /var is a separate filesystem To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1654600/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs