Just an update, for what it's worth. I solved this problem with a shell script triggered by Network Manager's "up" hook. Because UU does not update the package list, I had to resort to a `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade` with `DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive` and a whole bunch of options to make sure everything runs reliably in the background. Convoluted and laborious.
But now my Ubuntu is *always* up to date. Before, it regularly went *months* without a security update. Putting aside whose fault it is, this absolutely IS a problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886161 Title: Unattended upgrades should work on roaming laptops Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: For many if not most laptop computers, Unattended Upgrades seems all but useless by design. For upgrades to happen, with default config, 3 conditions must be met: - an internet connection must be up and running when the timer or cron or anacron tries the unattended upgrade - the connection must not be metered, whatever that means (Skip-Updates-On-Metered-Connections "true") - the computer must be plugged in (OnlyOnACPower "true") These are insurmountable problems for many laptops on the go. Inevitably, security upgrades will almost never run unattended on such computers. I discovered with shock that Unattended Upgrades had almost never run on my laptop. I tried all possible config tweaks. Nothing worked reliably and in the end I gave up and wrote a upgrade script which uses Network Manager's connection-up hook. Unattended Upgrades needs to do something like this out of the box. Users should not need to write scripts to ensure security upgrades. Unattended upgrades is an excellent project for servers. But it really needs to work, out of the box, on laptops too. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1886161/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
