[Bug 1649959] [NEW] unattended upgrade of apt kills running apt-daily job

[Chaskiel Grundman]

Public bug reported:

This morning, I discovered that my new xenial system had attempted an unattended upgrade overnight but the upgrade was incomplete. It attempted to upgrade
apt apt-transport-https apt-utils firefox firefox-locale-en flashplugin-installer libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libgme0

but the unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log log terminates after apt is
configured.

I had to dpkg --configure --pending and apt-get -f install to get apt back into working order.
There were no errors, crashes or cores logged.

The journal indicates that apt-daily.service stopped and restarted around the time of the upgrade, so I am assuming that is the problem (that systemd killed the update session as the result of an update to the unit files)
--- 
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-06 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
Package: apt 1.3.2ubuntu0.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6
Tags:  yakkety
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo wireshark
_MarkForUpload: True

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-collected yakkety

** Tags added: apport-collected yakkety

** Description changed:

  This morning, I discovered that my new xenial system had attempted an unattended upgrade overnight but the upgrade was incomplete. It attempted to upgrade
  apt apt-transport-https apt-utils firefox firefox-locale-en flashplugin-installer libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libgme0
  
  but the unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log log terminates after apt is
  configured.
  
  I had to dpkg --configure --pending and apt-get -f install to get apt back into working order.
  There were no errors, crashes or cores logged.
  
- The journal indicates that apt-daily.service stopped and restarted
- around the time of the upgrade, so I am assuming that is the problem
- (that systemd killed the update session as the result of an update to
- the unit files)
+ The journal indicates that apt-daily.service stopped and restarted around the time of the upgrade, so I am assuming that is the problem (that systemd killed the update session as the result of an update to the unit files)
+ --- 
+ ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
+ Architecture: amd64
+ CurrentDesktop: XFCE
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
+ InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-06 (7 days ago)
+ InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
+ NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
+ Package: apt 1.3.2ubuntu0.1
+ PackageArchitecture: amd64
+ ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6
+ Tags:  yakkety
+ Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
+ UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
+ UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo wireshark
+ _MarkForUpload: True

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Title:
  unattended upgrade of apt kills running apt-daily job

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This morning, I discovered that my new xenial system had attempted an unattended upgrade overnight but the upgrade was incomplete. It attempted to upgrade
  apt apt-transport-https apt-utils firefox firefox-locale-en flashplugin-installer libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libgme0

  but the unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log log terminates after apt is
  configured.

  I had to dpkg --configure --pending and apt-get -f install to get apt back into working order.
  There were no errors, crashes or cores logged.

  The journal indicates that apt-daily.service stopped and restarted around the time of the upgrade, so I am assuming that is the problem (that systemd killed the update session as the result of an update to the unit files)
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-06 (7 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
  NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
  Package: apt 1.3.2ubuntu0.1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6
  Tags:  yakkety
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo wireshark
  _MarkForUpload: True

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