Hello ChM, or anyone else affected, Accepted unattended-upgrades into wily-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended- upgrades/0.86.2ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Wily) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527106 Title: Fatal exception failure of unattended-upgrade Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Wily: Fix Committed Bug description: Every morning, since I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10, I get a mail (root) reporting a fatal exception in unatteded-upgrade containing the following. /etc/cron.daily/apt: Exception: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'bytes' and 'tuple' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1435, in <module> main(options) File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1382, in main pkgs, pkg_install_success, pkgs_kept_back, mem_log, log_content) File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 815, in send_summary_mail host(), res) TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'bytes' and 'tuple' As a consequence no automatic updates are performed anymore, including security updates. For this reason I flag this as a security vulnerability although it is only indirect. Manual updates is still working. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1527106/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
