Fix might be in qemu (add even more special cases) or in unattended upgrades (to properly handle or at least not die). Added a bug task for that.
** Description changed: As reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1820291/comments/20 We fixed an issue and we added workrounds since basic mv_conffile coudn't handle it and did all sort of upgrade tests. That all worked fine and moved the conffile. It was now reported that due to some pre-checks that unattended upgrades might do this might do some checks on its own. Next step: - check unattended upgrades through this change - check if it only affects cases were the former config was modified (minority) or the default file layout (majority) + + + --- original report copied --- + + just wanted to add: This bug also crashes unattended-upgrade and thus + prevents security updates on 18.04: + + root@mailin1:~# unattended-upgrade + Traceback (most recent call last): + File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1998, in <module> + sys.exit(main(options)) + File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1714, in main + if conffile_prompt(item.destfile): + File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 929, in conffile_prompt + with open(prefix + conf_file, 'rb') as fp: + IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/etc/qemu/fsfreeze-hook' + + Basically, unattended-upgrade wants to compare old/new conffiles and + doesn't like it when the old conffile turns out to be a directory... + + This prevents security updates to be installed. The unattended-upgrade + logs do not contain the trace, only the messages: + + 2019-04-05 13:24:24,851 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: + 2019-04-05 13:24:24,853 INFO Initial whitelisted packages: + 2019-04-05 13:24:24,853 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script + 2019-04-05 13:24:24,854 INFO Allowed origins are: o=Ubuntu,a=bionic, o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security, o=UbuntuESM,a=bionic' + + And that's it. + + You can't really get out of this without manually running 'apt-get + install qemu-guest-agent' because at this point, unattended-upgrade + can't update itself anymore. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1823872 Title: Fixing fsfreeze-hook can break unattended upgrades To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1823872/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
