[Bug 1269177] Re: Running 'unattended-upgrades --dry-run' reboots the machine

[Denis Nikolaenko]

The bug is still reproducible in xenial.

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# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

# grep Automatic-Reboot /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades   
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";
//Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-Time "02:00";


# dpkg -l unattended-upgrades 
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                        Version                    Architecture               Description
+++-===========================================-==========================-==========================-===========================================================================================
ii  unattended-upgrades                         0.90ubuntu0.8              all                        automatic installation of security upgrades


# touch /var/run/reboot-required

# unattended-upgrades --dry-run

(System reboots)

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Title:
  Running 'unattended-upgrades --dry-run' reboots the machine

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Much to my surprise, when I did a dry-run test of unattended-upgrades
  my server was forcibly rebooted. I must have had the file '/var/run
  /reboot-required' present.

  But needless to say: a --dry-run should NOT perform a reboot of the
  server with zero warning. Seriously.

  Output from /var/log/unattended-upgrades.log

  2014-01-15 11:14:26,474 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 
  2014-01-15 11:14:26,474 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
  2014-01-15 11:14:26,475 INFO Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=precise-security']
  2014-01-15 11:14:35,846 INFO Option --dry-run given, *not* performing real actions
  2014-01-15 11:14:35,846 INFO Packages that are upgraded: bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-80 libdns81 libisc83 libisccc80 libisccfg82 liblwres80 libssl1.0.0 linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae linux-image-generic-pae linux-libc-dev openssl
  2014-01-15 11:14:35,847 INFO Writing dpkg log to '/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2014-01-15_11:14:35.846820.log'
  2014-01-15 11:15:10,610 INFO All upgrades installed
  2014-01-15 11:15:10,611 WARNING Found /var/run/reboot-required, rebooting

  Version: 0.76ubuntu1

  As an aside, it makes a lot of sense to me to put the reboot on a
  timer, even if it's only a one minute (i.e. shutdown -r 1). That would
  have at least given me a chance to prevent the reboot if I had seen
  the warning. If that's a configuration setting I don't see it
  anywhere.

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