Thanks for your bugreport and sorry for my slow reply. The interessting bit in the report is:
conffile line: /etc/default/dhcpcd newconffile current md5: 5985e1dff4832ed1fef727da4809202f pkg_md5sum: 5985e1dff4832ed1fef727da4809202f i.e. the "/etc/default/dhcpcd newconffile" line - the code needs to specialcase the "newconffile" and ignore that. ** Summary changed: - unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt + unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt due to "newconffile" line ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => precise-updates -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/936870 Title: unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt due to "newconffile" line To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/936870/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs