Hi Mikko, On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been wondering why my sid laptop is sometimes spinning the fan and > I've seen apt running in the background. I though that was only an > update of the package index and not actual upgrades. Then I've lately had > several odd system lockups on Gnome desktop running on wayland. And > crashes of various applications. Then today I saw that unattended-updates > were running dpkg automatically, which I have not enabled since this > is sid/unstable. I traced this back to apt daily systemd timers. > > Why are these updates enabled by default?
The explanation is in the u-u NEWS file which was not shipped due to wrong naming, but it will be present in next upload: https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/blob/master/debian/NEWS > > To me it does not make sense on sid/unstable to enable automatic updates > by default. Even on stable I would expect that just installing some > packages does not automatically enable installing updates which may > break things on a running system which needs reboots and restart anyway > to make the updates effective. On stable u-u is already enabled, jut like in Ubuntu releases. Please run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades to disable automatic updates if you don't want them to be installed. > > And yes, I've been on expensive mobile broadband when traveling lately > and am a bit afraid of getting expensive bills in a few weeks... I'm sorry for that, this bug tracks fixing this exact issue. Cheers, Balint -- Balint Reczey Ubuntu & Debian Developer
