[Bug 1834226] Re: update-notifier doesn't respect "automatically check for updates: Never"
Erik Sax
1834226 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Jun 28 12:31:37 UTC 2019
Did a PS on one of these systems this morning. Found some shenanigans.
root 3380 1 0 08:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily install
root 3384 3380 0 08:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily lock_is_held install
root 3415 3384 99 08:25 ? 00:00:09 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Grep for "updates" yielded this:
$ ps -ef | grep upgrade
root 1182 1 0 08:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown --wait-for-signal
root 3415 3384 14 08:25 ? 00:00:22 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
root 5356 3415 1 08:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
After I killed 3415 I was able to get the apt lock and proceed with a
manual `sudo apt-get upgrade`
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Title:
update-notifier doesn't respect "automatically check for updates:
Never"
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
This has been a long-standing problem with various ubuntu
installations, and I'm sensing some reticence in doing anything about
it. This attitude also seems to be purposeful to try to cajole updates
on people who make bad choices due to confusion/fud/paranoia.
apt install fails due to:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?
A great deal of networking is taking place despite setting automatic
upgrades to "never". Cycling this doesn't seem to do anything. This
action is hostile to programmers and the setting should be respected.
Wisdom on threads is to let it update until it's out of updates, and
then it supposedly respects the "never" flag, but the experience I'm
having is much more non-deterministic. have been using 19.04 for weeks
now and still get the background notifier using data and getting in
the way of aptitude package installations. I prefer manual update &&
upgrade once my code is ready to push.
Is there another way around this or are people just living with it?
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