Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything
Hi Gregor,
one more detail about the configuration of said system (see below/between):
Any ideas how to proceed?
Ciao; Gregor
* Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> [2017-03-31; 17:34]:
> Dear fellow debian users,
>
> this is about a debian stable (=jessie) system and it does not
> upgrade unattended and I have no clue how to debug this:
>
> It's configured for jessie repositories:
>
> # egrep -v "(^[[:space:]]*[#;\\])|^[[:space:]]*$" sources.list
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
>
>
> unattended-upgrades is installed:
> # dpkg -l unattended-upgrades |grep ii
> ii unattended-upgrades 0.83.3.2+deb8u1 all automatic installation of security upgrades
>
>
> To me the apt config files look fine:
>
> # egrep -v "(^[[:space:]]*[#;/])|^[[:space:]]*$" /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic
> Dir "/";
> Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
> Dir::Cache::Archives "archives/";
> APT::Periodic::Enable "1";
> APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
> APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
> APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages-Debdelta "1";
> APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
> APT::Periodic::Verbose "2";
>
> # egrep -v "(^[[:space:]]*[#;/])|^[[:space:]]*$" /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
> APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
> APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
>
> For some reasons there is obviously some dublification but I
> don't think this is a problem.
>
> I don't really know what the Origins-Pattern should look like but
> I cannot remember to have messed with them:
>
> # egrep -v "(^[[:space:]]*[#;/])|^[[:space:]]*$" /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
> Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
> "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security";
> };
> Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
> };
I now checked for the origin, to me it seems OK, but
unattended-upgrade does still nothing:
# unattended-upgrades -v --dry-run
Initial blacklisted packages:
Initial whitelisted packages:
Starting unattended upgrades script
Allowed origins are: ['origin=Debian,codename=jessie,label=Debian-Security']
No packages found that can be upgraded unattended
root@shi:/etc/default# apt-cache policy | grep -v Translat
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates/main i386 Packages
release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=jessie-updates,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main i386 Packages
release v=8,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian-Security,c=main
origin security.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
release v=8.7,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
Pinned packages:
>
>
> Cron is installed...
> # dpkg -l cron|grep ii
> ii cron 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1 i386 process scheduling daemon
>
>
> ... and running:
>
>
> # ps fax|grep "[c]ron"
> 1499 ? Ss 0:02 /usr/sbin/cron -f
>
>
>
> to me the basic configuration looks fine:
>
> # egrep -v "(^[[:space:]]*[#;/])|^[[:space:]]*$" /etc/default/cron
> READ_ENV="yes"
> # egrep -v "(^[[:space:]]*[#;/])|^[[:space:]]*$" /etc/default/anacron
> ANACRON_RUN_ON_BATTERY_POWER=no
>
>
> and the system is on corded power:
> # acpi -a
> Adapter 0: on-line
>
>
>
>
> there are cron configuration files for apt:
> # ls -l /etc/cron.daily/apt*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15333 Mär 2 2016 /etc/cron.daily/apt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15335 Aug 31 2015 /etc/cron.daily/apt~
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15290 Feb 16 2015 /etc/cron.daily/apt.dpkg-old
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 314 Nov 5 2012 /etc/cron.daily/aptitude
>
>
> The only change to the apt config file is:
>
> # diff -Nur /etc/cron.daily/apt~ /etc/cron.daily/apt
> --- /etc/cron.daily/apt~ 2015-08-31 15:51:57.063709255 +0200
> +++ /etc/cron.daily/apt 2016-03-02 10:04:25.595379714 +0100
> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
> # (some code taken from cron-apt, thanks)
> random_sleep()
> {
> - RandomSleep=1800
> + RandomSleep=18
> eval $(apt-config shell RandomSleep APT::Periodic::RandomSleep)
> if [ $RandomSleep -eq 0 ]; then
> return
>
>
> ... because this maschine used to be up only for round about an
> hour a day, but this is not true any more, the system is now up
> long enough for it to caught some security upgrade:
> # uptime
> 17:25:41 up 12 days, 22:06, 3 users, load average: 0,00, 0,02, 0,00
>
>
>
> but there is not much of an activity lately:
>
> # ls -Altr /var/log/unattended-upgrades/|tail
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Jul 27 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-07-27_10:50:00.414149.log.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384 Jul 29 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-07-29_18:20:11.584658.log.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 995 Aug 1 2015 unattended-upgrades.log.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-07-08_19:46:46.479193.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-07-27_10:50:00.414149.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-07-29_18:20:11.584658.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1058 Aug 4 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-08-04_20:25:14.411794.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1418 Aug 7 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-08-07_11:27:50.855330.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 540 Aug 19 2015 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-08-19_10:53:36.820176.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9056 Mär 2 2016 unattended-upgrades.log
>
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to investigate this and who to
> enable unattended upgrades?
>
> Thanks, Gregor
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