Unattended-upgrades does not print to stdout by default thus it can operate properly in the environments triggering the bug, but apt.systemd.daily executes u-u --help that may crash.
To avoid the crash apt could set LC_ALL=C.UTF8 when running unattended- upgrades --help as proposed in the MR below: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/merge_requests/34 ** Description changed: + [Test Case] + + rbalint@yogi:~$ lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 bb-lp-1806076 + Creating bb-lp-1806076 + Starting bb-lp-1806076 + rbalint@yogi:~$ lxc shell bb-lp-1806076 + mesg: ttyname failed: No such device + root@bb-lp-1806076:~# apt install -yqq language-pack-ru-base + The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: + libfreetype6 + Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it. + The following additional packages will be installed: + language-pack-ru + The following NEW packages will be installed: + language-pack-ru language-pack-ru-base + 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. + Need to get 2310 kB of archives. + After this operation, 11.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. + Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-ru-base. + (Reading database ... 28536 files and directories currently installed.) + Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-ru-base_1%3a18.04+20180712_all.deb ... + Unpacking language-pack-ru-base (1:18.04+20180712) ... + Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-ru. + Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-ru_1%3a18.04+20180712_all.deb ... + Unpacking language-pack-ru (1:18.04+20180712) ... + Setting up language-pack-ru (1:18.04+20180712) ... + Setting up language-pack-ru-base (1:18.04+20180712) ... + Generating locales (this might take a while)... + ru_RU.UTF-8... done + ru_UA.UTF-8... done + Generation complete. + root@bb-lp-1806076:~# env LANG=ru_RU unattended-upgrade --help | cat + Traceback (most recent call last): + File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1983, in <module> + (options, args) = parser.parse_args() # type: ignore + File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1387, in parse_args + stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values) + File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1427, in _process_args + self._process_long_opt(rargs, values) + File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1501, in _process_long_opt + option.process(opt, value, values, self) + File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 785, in process + self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser) + File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 807, in take_action + parser.print_help() + File "/usr/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1647, in print_help + file.write(self.format_help()) + UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 126-133: ordinal not in range(128) + + root@bb-lp-1806076:~# env LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 unattended-upgrade --help | cat + Usage: unattended-upgrade [options] + + Options: + -h, --help show this help message and exit + -d, --debug print debug messages + --apt-debug make apt/libapt print verbose debug messages + -v, --verbose print info messages + --dry-run Simulation, download but do not install + --download-only Only download, do not even try to install. + --minimal-upgrade-steps + Upgrade in minimal steps (and allow interrupting with + SIGTERM + + + [Original Bug Text] + The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding unattended-upgrades. This problem was most recently seen with package version 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.6, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b3e3265e302351558260f54ae37c7b4c193dfc95 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports. If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/. ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags added: patch-forwarded-debian ** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1806076 Title: unattended-upgrade --help raises UnicodeEncodeError when stdout encoding is ascii To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1806076/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
