[Bug 525674] Re: apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

[Scott Moser]

hey. saw this in my inbox, and very happy! thank you for working on
this.

one note, in update-notifier-3.164/data/update-motd-updates-available

+    trap cleanup EXIT
+    tmpfile=$(mktemp)

if tmpfile was set in the environment prior to this program running, and
you exited for some reason between those two, then you'd rm the
previously set 'tmpfile'.

the easy fix is to just declare 'tmpfile=' before trapping cleanup.

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Title:
  apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier

  While investigating protracted hangs in the remote login process, I
  noticed that apt-check is called to update the list of available
  updates and print the number of updatable packages in the MOTD. As it
  so happens, apt-check often hangs in mid-update, which effectively
  prevents remote login via SSH from taking place.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Feb 22 12:20:16 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-notifier-common 0.96
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fi_FI.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

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