Public bug reported:
I was using a thumbdrive freshly created with unetbootin with Ubuntu
16.04 LTS and a 2GB persistent partition on a VAIO VPCEB42FM laptop to
copy failed hard drive to replacement hard drive. During this critical
recovery operation, system was unresponsive and I discovered that dpkg
was running a command to install upgrades for more packages than would
fit on one screen without line breaks. It was invoked by unattended-
upgrade. I would not have given unattended-upgrade permission to
install upgrades on a hard-drive, let alone on a usb thumb drive.
killed using killall before reporting bug. Relavent portions of ps output
pasted below from terminal buffer:
4 0 3830 30239 20 0 73660 44404 - Ss+ pts/2 0:09
/usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 10 --unpack --auto-deconfigure
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.5_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.5_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3.5_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.5-stdlib_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3.5-minimal_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.5-minimal_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libfontconfig1_2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig-config_2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig_2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickwand-6.q16-2_8%3a6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickcore-6.q16-2_8%3a6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick-
common_8%3a6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
/libreoffice-ogltrans_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/ure_5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/uno-libs3_5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-calc_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-impress_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-draw_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-gnome_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-gtk_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-uno_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-style-
galaxy_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-
style-breeze_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
/libreoffice-pdfimport_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-math_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-base-
core_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-
avmedia-backend-gstreamer_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-writer_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-core_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0_2.32.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgdk-
pixbuf2.0-common_2.32.2-1ubuntu1.2_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
/fonts-opensymbol_2%3a102.7+LibO5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgstreamer-plugins-
base1.0-0_1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/curl_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libidn11_1.32-3ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libharfbuzz0b_1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libharfbuzz-icu0_1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libnspr4_2%3a4.12-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libnss3-1d_2%3a3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libnss3-nssdb_2%3a3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libnss3_2%3a3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpython2.7_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpython2.7-stdlib_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7-minimal_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpython2.7-minimal_2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libtevent0_0.9.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python-samba_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-
0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-common-
bin_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libsmbclient_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-
0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-libs_2%3a4.3.11
+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libwbclient0_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-
0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-
common_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgcrypt20_1.6.5-2ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
5 0 30239 30200 20 0 146400 63792 - S ? 0:01
/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
4 0 29961 1 20 0 4508 1740 - Ss ? 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily
4 0 30200 29961 20 0 145736 72336 - S ? 5:19
/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.90
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jan 15 15:51:27 2017
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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