[Bug 1656667] Re: unattended-upgrade running without permission on thumbdrive

Tue Jan 17 22:36:51 UTC 2017

Were the drive to have been created with startup disk creator, provided
in the Ubuntu repositories, you would not have encountered this error.
For more information see bug 1619188.

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  unattended-upgrade running without permission on thumbdrive

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I was using a thumbdrive freshly created with unetbootin with Ubuntu
  16.04 LTS and a 2GB persistent partition on a VAIO VPCEB42FM laptop to
  copy failed hard drive to replacement hard drive.   During this
  critical recovery operation, system was unresponsive and I discovered
  that dpkg was running a command to install upgrades for more packages
  than would fit on one screen without line breaks.   It was invoked  by
  unattended-upgrade.   I would not have given unattended-upgrade
  permission to install upgrades on a hard-drive, let alone on a usb
  thumb drive.

  killed using killall before reporting bug.  Relavent portions of ps output pasted below from terminal buffer:

  4     0  3830 30239  20   0  73660 44404 -      Ss+  pts/2      0:09
  /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 10 --unpack --auto-deconfigure
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.5_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.5_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/python3.5_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.5-stdlib_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/python3.5-minimal_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.5-minimal_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libfontconfig1_2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig-config_2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig_2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickwand-6.q16-2_8%3a6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickcore-6.q16-2_8%3a6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick-
  common_8%3a6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /libreoffice-ogltrans_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/ure_5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/uno-libs3_5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-calc_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-
  impress_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /libreoffice-draw_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /libreoffice-gnome_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-gtk_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-uno_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-style-
  galaxy_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-
  style-breeze_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /libreoffice-pdfimport_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-math_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-base-
  core_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-
  avmedia-backend-gstreamer_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-
  writer_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /libreoffice-core_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0_2.32.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgdk-
  pixbuf2.0-common_2.32.2-1ubuntu1.2_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
  /fonts-opensymbol_2%3a102.7+LibO5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgstreamer-plugins-
  base1.0-0_1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/curl_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libidn11_1.32-3ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libharfbuzz0b_1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libharfbuzz-icu0_1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libnspr4_2%3a4.12-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libnss3-1d_2%3a3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libnss3-nssdb_2%3a3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libnss3_2%3a3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython2.7_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython2.7-stdlib_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7-minimal_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libpython2.7-minimal_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libtevent0_0.9.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/python-samba_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-
  0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-common-
  bin_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libsmbclient_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-
  0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-
  libs_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libwbclient0_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-
  0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-
  common_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_all.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcrypt20_1.6.5-2ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb

  5     0 30239 30200  20   0 146400 63792 -      S    ?          0:01 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
  4     0 29961     1  20   0   4508  1740 -      Ss   ?          0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily
  4     0 30200 29961  20   0 145736 72336 -      S    ?          5:19 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: unattended-upgrades 0.90
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Jan 15 15:51:27 2017
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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