[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771135] Re: unattended upgrades always fail b/c dpkg status database is always locked

2018-05-15 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
I'd appreciate some help fixing this since these computers are now not getting automatic security updates. And since it's a pretty standard Ubuntu Desktop installation, I'd be surprised if these were the only onese affected. Unfortunately it's a little hard to debug this since it seems to happen

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771135] Re: unattended upgrades always fail b/c dpkg status database is always locked

2018-05-15 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
** Information type changed from Public to Public Security -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1771135 Title: unattended upgrades always fail b/c dpkg status databa

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771135] Re: unattended upgrades always fail b/c dpkg status database is always locked

2018-05-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Thanks for the info. I seem to have missed that. Any idea what else might be running? Or a workaround/fix? These are pretty standard Ubuntu Desktop machines. And everything worked fine when I installed them last year. I doubt it's a strange configuration on my part. - Felix -- You received

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771135] [NEW] unattended upgrades always fail b/c dpkg status database is always locked

2018-05-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Public bug reported: Hi, (Filing this bug against apt since that contains the systemd timers and cron job to start unattended-upgrades). I'm using unattended-upgrades on several computers. On the one that is on most of the time, updates work as expected. On the ones that are off most of the ti