Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 1.1 Severity: important I recently had unattended-upgrades do nothing when it started. This wouldn't have been noticed if I hadn't started manually. The cause was a problem with some KDE packages being broken. I think it would be best to send mail on ERROR conditions. This would allow users to manually fix the situation with apt.
$ sudo tail /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log 2018-05-14 13:58:40,492 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 2018-05-14 13:58:40,494 INFO Initial whitelisted packages: 2018-05-14 13:58:40,494 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script 2018-05-14 13:58:40,495 INFO Allowed origins are: origin=Debian,codename=buster,label=Debian, origin=Debian,codename=buster,label=Debian-Security, origin=Debian 2018-05-14 13:58:49,897 WARNING package libkf5codecs-data upgradable but fails to be marked for upgrade (E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.) 2018-05-14 13:58:51,978 WARNING package libkf5config-data upgradable but fails to be marked for upgrade (E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.) 2018-05-14 13:58:54,472 WARNING package libkf5coreaddons-data upgradable but fails to be marked for upgrade (E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.) 2018-05-14 13:59:42,298 INFO Packages that will be upgraded: <removed> kio kpackagetool5 <removed> libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5 libkf5declarative-data libkf5declarative5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5 libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5newstuff-data libkf5newstuff5 libkf5newstuffcore5 libkf5notifications-data libkf5notifications5 libkf5package-data libkf5package5 libkf5parts-data libkf5parts5 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5service-bin libkf5service-data libkf5service5 libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5 libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5 libkf5windowsystem-data libkf5windowsystem5 libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libkwalletbackend5-5 <removed> qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons <removed> 2018-05-14 13:59:42,298 INFO Writing dpkg log to /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log 2018-05-14 13:59:51,469 ERROR Cache has broken packages, exiting -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.66 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 ii lsb-release 9.20170808 ii python3 3.6.4-1 ii python3-apt 1.6.0 ii ucf 3.0038 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades recommends: ii anacron 2.3-24 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-130 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests: ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.91-3 ii needrestart 3.1-1 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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